Canterbury Festival

To mark the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's death, Canterbury Choral Society and Youth Choir will perform his popular cantata St Nicolas. This inventive work features dramatic storms and shipwrecks alongside touching scenes from the saint's life, with audience participation in two hymns.

Joining the choir are the world-renowned London Mozart Players, who will also perform two of the finest English works for string orchestra by Elgar and Vaughan Williams.

Together with Holst's moving Psalm 86, this promises to be an evening of rich enchantment and powerful storytelling.

Canterbury Choral Society presents Britten: St Nicolas

Canterbury Cathedral

Join the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral as they welcome the return of the Central Band of the Royal British Legion for a sensational and heart-stirring concert featuring a Nautical Rhapsody by Hayden Wood and the Thames Journey by Nigel Hess.

As the band travels with us along the Thames, there will be music linked to some of the great landmarks of London. Other music will include the great film scores of John Williams, as well as a Shirley Bassey Medley.

The Friends of Canterbury Cathedral present The FRIENDly Concert

An opportunity to hear Verdi’s great choral masterpiece, as Canterbury Choral Society and its Youth Choir demonstrate their power and expressive range in this dramatic work.

Verdi, the opera composer, combines his operatic roots in the great arias with a sense of universal spaciousness in the choruses of telling splendour. One of the most enduring choral favourites from the 19th century, the Requiem brings together a wide-ranging palette combining all his finest attributes – touching lyricism, luxuriant orchestral colour, and choruses which range from the whispered to earth-shattering fortissimos, stretching soloists and choir alike to extremes.