Choir of New College Oxford
Choir of New College Oxford
The Choir of New College Oxford, composed of adult singers and boy trebles, is one of the leading choral ensembles in the world, celebrated for its distinctive and stylish performance of music from five centuries. You can hear the choir in choral services live in New College Chapel, Oxford, and via webcasts, on concert tours and on its 100+ recordings. The choir is directed by Robert Quinney.
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The Choir of New College Oxford, composed of adult singers and boy trebles, is one of the leading choral ensembles in the world, celebrated for its distinctive and stylish performance of music from five centuries. You can hear the choir in choral services live in New College Chapel, Oxford, and via webcasts, on concert tours and on its 100+ recordings. The choir is directed by Robert Quinney.
More About UsLay Clerk Vacancies ALTO
The choir is recruiting for a new alto clerk to start on 1 October 2025. This is an excellent opportunity for singers building a professional portfolio career. For full details and application link ollow Find Out More.
Find out moreHilary Term: Organ Reflections
Organ Reflections, our new recital series, is launched this term on Tuesdays at 9.00pm in chapel. A different theme is explored in words and music each week: find out more by following the link
Find out moreService Details & Music Lists
Choral services for the Hilary Term begin on Friday 17 January and run until Saturday 15 March. Click Find Out More for full details of all services and to view the music list.
Find out moreBach at New College 2024 - 2025
Robert Quinney & New College Choir put Bach at the heart of the next year. Concerts, services and lecture recitals over 2024 and 2025 explore Bach's music, culminating in a special performance in the Sheldonian Theatre to mark the Bodleian Library's acquisition of an autograph MS of Cantata 128.
Find out moreNew Crib Figures in Chapel
The chapel has welcomed beautiful new Crib Figures, specially created by Lucy Ballard, one of the alto lay clerks who is also an accomplished ceramicist. Read the full story from Lucy herself ....
Find out moreRobert Quinney plays Bach
On Tuesday 21 January Robert Quinney continues his exploration of Bach's Clavier-Ubung - Bach's 'dazzingly inventive' keyboard practice manual. 8.45pm in New College Chapel - free entry
Find out moreJames Burton premiere at Evensong on 9 November at 5.45pm
A new anthem will receive its premiere at Evensong on Saturday 9 November. Commissioned by the Edmund Trust in memory of Edmund Bridges, the anthem is a setting of words by Hildegard of Bingen set to music by Jamie Burton.
Find out moreNew College: Commissions & Premieres
Linn Records CKD 720
RELEASE DATE: 23/06/2023
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The music composed for New College Choir in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries provides a compelling historical tour of changing musical styles and liturgical practices. On this disc we survey New College commissions from the 1920s to the 2020s, beginning with William Harris’s evergreen Faire is the heaven, composed while he was Organist of New College, and ending with two recent commissions from Caitlin Harrison and Deborah Pritchard. The disc is built round three settings of the Evensong canticles, by Paul Drayton, Herbert Howells, and Deborah Pritchard. For Kenneth Leighton’s heart-wrenching cantata Crucifixus pro nobis, written in 1961, the choir is joined by tenor Nick Pritchard, a former academical clerk at New College.