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 UsBoys on Tour!
The remainder of 2025, and early 2026, promises to be a very exciting time for the New College Choristers, with tours scheduled to Sweden (July 2025), Versailles (November 2025), China over the New Year and even more potential opportunities for next year! We will keep you posted with tour updates and news of where you can see them performing abroad, should you be lucky enough to do so.
Find out moreWelcome to our new Assistant Organist
The choir is delighted to welcome Hugh Rowlands who takes up the post of Assistant Organist at the beginning of September. Follow the links to learn more about Hugh's career.
Find out moreSupporting New College Choir
If you have enjoyed our live-streamed services, concerts and recordings, and would like to support the work of the choir, we would be most grateful.
Find out moreEvensong in memoriam Sir David Lumsden
On Saturday 4 May the choir celebrated the memory of Sir David Lumsden, former Organist of New College. The choir sang Byrd's Great Service and Harris, Fair is the heaven.
Find out moreJ S Bach, Christmas Oratorio
On Tuesday 19 December at 6.30pm New College Choir with Instruments of Time & Truth will perform parts I-III of Bach's dramatic and expressive setting of the Christmas Story.
Find out moreRobert Quinney talks about Frescobaldi on This Week's Composer
Robert Quinney discusses Frescobaldi on Radio 3's This Week's Composer with presenter Donald McLeod.
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.