A sacred masterpiece – Beethoven’s radiant Mass in C speaks from the heart and is a beautiful, deeply personal contemplation of the divine.

Three Choirs Festival: Beethoven Mass in C

Gloucester Cathedral

‘An undoubted jewel in Britain’s choral scene’ (BBC Music Magazine), the Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford directed by Owen Rees is among the finest and most active university choirs in the UK. Its extensive concert schedule involves appearances across the UK and internationally, and among its acclaimed recordings – including releases with the Academy of Ancient Music and the Britten Sinfonia – the 2018 release of music by John Taverner receive a Diapason d’Or, while Carols from Queen’s enjoyed nine weeks in the Specialist Classical Charts and was a Telegraph Christmas pick.

Christmas from Queen’s

Smith Square Hall

The Choir of Clare College return to Smith Square Hall for their annual Christmas concert, presenting a programme of familiar and new Christmas choral music and celebrating the music of former Director of Music Sir John Rutter in his 80th birthday year.

Christmas with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Holiday Choral by Candlelight 2025

Mission San Rafael Arcángel

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Carols at Christmas

Saffron Hall

Enjoy an ‘as live’ performance of our 2022 Choral Pilgrimage programme An Old Belief, from the comfort of your own home. Filmed in the intimate surroundings of London’s St Martin-in-the-Fields, this emotional programme centres around Parry’s heartfelt Songs of Farewell.

An Old Belief

Kick off your Christmas celebrations with this uplifting and festive concert from the John Lewis Partnership’s Music Society. Featuring performances from various Partnership musical groups, the Cavendish Ensemble take on Patric Standford’s “ingenious” Carol Symphony, then join with Voices in Partnership for Cecilia McDowall’s popular Christmas Cantata Christus Natus Est. There will also be festive pieces performed by the chamber choir Cavendish Singers and jazz group Basement Jazz.

Jlp Music Society Christmas Concert

Our Chamber Choir presents a programme inspired by folk melodies, song, and dance. From the haunting beauty of Seinn O to the vibrant rhythms of Sakkijarven Polkka, this is an afternoon of exquisite choral artistry that will leave you feeling uplifted and inspired.

Thursday Lunchtimes: RNCM Chamber Choir

RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music)

Conclude your musical journey with “Ave Rex: A Musical Journey of Advent to Christmas” a glorious combination of WASO's Brass Octet, the Cathedral Consort, organist Stewart Smith and directed by Joseph Nolan.

This concert is a blend of sacred and secular Christmas classics, highlighted by the world premiere a new setting of the Magnificat by young West Australian composer, Ruben Davies.

Ave Rex: A Musical Journey of Advent to Christmas

Perth Concert Hall

This performance is free and open for general seating.

Organ Studio Recital: students of Linda Andrews - "The Queen of Instruments: Organ Music by Women Composers" @ First Presbyterian Church, Macomb

First Presbyterian Church

The award-winning ORA Singers celebrates its 10th anniversary year with a choral highlights programme featuring key works from its first decade. Alongside Renaissance polyphony by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Victoria, Palestrina and others sit 10 contemporary pieces from its ground-breaking 100 commissions catalogue, including the world première of its 100th commission – In Manus Tuas by Brett Dean.

ORA Singers; Suzi Digby OBE conductor

Wigmore Hall

Step into the world of the Brontë sisters with Kantos Chamber Choir in an evocative evening of choral music and spoken word inspired by the lives and imaginations of one of literature’s most extraordinary families.

Kantos Chamber Choir: Brontë

Stoller Hall, Manchester

Joby Talbot follows his critically acclaimed 2005 commission for Tenebrae, Path of Miracles, with a new a cappella work, a setting of WB Yeats’s The Song of Wandering Aengus. This evening’s concert stands as a celebration of the great British choral tradition and the vast panoply of works written for its finest ensembles. Tenebrae crowns its programme with the transcendent sounds of High Flight, an exquisite evocation of Bob Chilcott’s memories of life as a boy chorister at King’s College, Cambridge.

Tenebrae; Nigel Short conductor

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and conductor Graham Ross return to Sinfonia Smith Square for the final concert in their year-long celebration of Clare College’s 700th anniversary.  Traditional carols and Christmas motets and anthems, including those from the time of the College’s founding such as Angelus ad virginem and In dulci jubilo sit alongside more recent additions to the canon, including works written especially for the Choir by the late Sir John Tavener, former Director of Music Sir John Rutter, and Cecilia McDowall.  The programme also includes Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s The Nativity, commissioned for the College’s 700th anniversary.

Angelus ad Virginem

Return to the serenity of Greyfriars Kirk for Light Eternal, an evening of reflection and warmth in one of Edinburgh’s most atmospheric spaces.

Chorus Christmas Concert

Greyfriars Kirk

The BBC Singers present a concert of repertoire based on musical settings of the biblical texts of the Lamentations of Jeremiah.

Cecilia McDowall

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 24, 2026

ORA Singers; Suzi Digby OBE conductor · Wigmore Hall

Nov 14, 2026

Kantos Chamber Choir: Brontë · The Stoller Hall

Dec 11, 2026

Tenebrae; Nigel Short conductor · Wigmore Hall

Dec 21, 2026

Angelus ad Virginem · Sinfonia Smith Square

21 - 22 Dec, 2026

Chorus Christmas Concert · Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Past events

Jul 29, 2026

Three Choirs Festival: Beethoven Mass in C · Philharmonia Orchestra

Dec 19, 2025

Christmas from Queen’s · Sinfonia Smith Square

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