Cathedral Residencies
In recent years, summer cathedral residencies have included Blackburn, Chester, Exeter, Chichester, Truro, Salisbury, Wells, and Bristol Cathedrals, York Minster, and Sherborne Abbey. These are “working holidays” during which we sing the daily offices in the cathedral or Minster, and go out on excursions, sight-seeing and recreational activities. Since 1991 we have alternated these cathedral weeks with tours abroad, which now are open to all musicians. Over the last decade, the choir has sung in prestigious venues such as St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Padua Cathedral, Barcelona, Girona Cathedral, and Montserrat Abbey.
Singing for occasional weddings is also a popular and lucrative activity. It’s all hard work but plenty of fun! Other activities are social and include the Christmas Party and the more formal Choir Dinner which is hosted by the Headmaster especially for the choristers. All this helps to cement the strong social life and “family atmosphere” within the Choir in which pupils from Prep to Sixth Form work together as musical equals.