Peterhouse Choir

Official account for the Chapel Choir of @Peterhouse_Cam @Cambridge_Uni, directed by @sjjackson32. Youtube:

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

Out now! We're thrilled to announce that our debut CD, Music from the @Peterhouse_Cam Partbooks, is released today on the @naxosrecords label. It's available to purchase and stream from all major platforms @Spotify @AppleMusic

LISTEN NOW: https://t.co/5ZPTjuDRSL

#NewonNaxos

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

A year on from the release of our debut album with @naxos_uk. It received 4 stars from @MusicMagazine who praised it for its 'warmly blended account' and 'bounding enthusiasm' - listen here: https://t.co/X6ocTo1saF

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

Out now! We're thrilled to announce that our debut CD, Music from the @Peterhouse_Cam Partbooks, is released today on the @naxosrecords label. It's available to purchase and stream from all major platforms @Spotify @AppleMusic

LISTEN NOW: https://t.co/5ZPTjuDRSL

#NewonNaxos

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

We had a fabulous (and swelteringly hot) time on Wednesday singing with Selwyn Choir for the University of Cambridge Honorary degree ceremony. You can watch the livestream of the full ceremony here:

https://t.co/jUPFAWePlg

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

"Never was leaf so green": This evening we're delighted to be premiering a new anthem by Cecilia McDowall, setting words by Hildegard of Bingen. commissioned to celebrate 40 years since the admission of women to @Peterhouse_Cam
All welcome in Peterhouse Chapel at 6pm

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

We're excited to be premiering a new work written for us by Cecilia McDowall at Evensong this coming Sunday at 6pm. It has been commissioned as part of the college's celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the admission of women to Peterhouse, & sets words by Hildegard of Bingen

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

This evening we sing music by 3 contemporary composers, including an anthem setting words by the metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan, 'I saw Eternity'
Responses: @EBersweden
Canticles: @BenPonniah, Maida Vale Service
Anthem: @lucywalkermusic, I saw Eternity
Peterhouse Chapel, 6pm

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

It's Pentecost, and we're celebrating at 6pm with music by Aston, Sumsion, abd Elgar (including a setting of words by Joseph Beaumont, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge in the 17th Century). All welcome in Chapel (which is a little cooler than the rest of college at the moment)

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

This evening we mark the Sunday after Ascension with festive music by Lassus, Wood and Stanford. All welcome to join us in Peterhouse Chapel this evening at 6pm

Psalm 47 (Dupuis)
Magnificat: Lassus, octavi toni
Nunc Dimittis: Wood, in B flat (Latin)
Anthem: Coelos ascendit hodie

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

We're back for Easter Term, and our first Choral Evensong is tonight at 6pm - all welcome to join us in @Peterhouse_Cam Chapel

Responses: Clucas
Canticles: Brewer in D
Anthem: Gibbons, If ye be risen again with Christ
Voluntary: Mendelssohn, Allegro in B flat major, MWV W47

[Johan van Veen (@musicaDeidonum.bsky.social) @johanvanveen]

#earlymusic #oudemuziek CD review: 'Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks' (The Choir of Peterhouse, Cambridge/Simon Jackson) https://t.co/BDRtBDDj5h

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

Wrapping up 2025 with a programme featuring our new CD on Italian Radio:

https://t.co/8n7pUHv0aj

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

Something a bit different for the season from our new CD with @naxosrecords: William Byrd's Ne irascaris, Domine rearranged for Christmas, as heard in @Peterhouse_Cam Chapel in the 1630s

https://t.co/5GDGhnxtEE

[Peterhouse, Cambridge @Peterhouse_Cam]

"The Shepherds Sing" is a setting of a George Herbert poem, composed by Ben Ponniah, directed by Simon Jackson, Director of Music. Watch the full version on YouTube: https://t.co/LQ4n7FXaIB

[Peterhouse, Cambridge @Peterhouse_Cam]

Join us for a cosy fireside carol as the @PeterhouseChoir 'outsing the daylight hours' in this year's festive film, recorded in the Combination Room just as the daylight faded to dusk

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

This year's Christmas film is going live this afternoon at 1pm: head over to Youtube to watch us perform @BenPonniah's beautiful setting of Herbert's poem 'The Shepherds Sing', written for us last year:

https://t.co/xaoVjrMOt3

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

Tonight we join with the Choir of Little St Mary's for a liturgical performance of Duruflé’s Requiem for All Souls’ Day.

All welcome - 7pm, Little St Mary’s Church

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

Join us in Chapel at 6pm this evening for Evensong for All Saints. Including music from our recent CD with @naxosrecords

https://t.co/AtSFs7ZZkO

Responses: Smith
Psalm 145: 1-9 (Barnby)
Canticles: Wilson in C (from the Peterhouse Partbooks)
Anthem: Victoria, O quam gloriosum

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

Evensong tonight includes an anthem by @lucywalkermusic, a new psalm chant written by one of our Choral Scholars, Izzy Heap.

All welcome, @Peterhouse_Cam Chapel 6:30pm

Responses: Clucas
Psalm 119: 129-36 (Heap)
Canticles: Dyson in F
Anthem: Walker, Lighten our darkness

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

Join us in Peterhouse Chapel for Evensong tonight at 6pm, with music by William Smith, Henry Purcell, & Henrietta Moran

Psalm 119: 1-16 (Hopkins)
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Purcell in g minor
Anthem: Moran, O Lord support us
Voluntary: Pierné, Prélude from Trois Pièces

[Peterhouse Choir @PeterhouseChoir]

Join us later for Choral Evensong in @Peterhouse_Cam Chapel

Responses: Smith
Psalm 149 (Stanford)
Canticles: Gibbons, Short service
Anthem: Blitheman, In Pace
Voluntary: Bruhns, Praeludium in e minor

All welcome - 6pm

[Simon Jackson @sjjackson32]

Really thrilled to see that @StMartinsVoices have included this carol by the much missed @JamesWhitbourn on their latest album from @resonusclassics, which I commissioned back in the dark days of Covid for @PeterhouseChoir:
https://t.co/GTSnjXuPJi