The Southern Cathedrals Festival offers a unique opportunity to enjoy music and to take part in worship within the setting of three magnificent cathedrals.
The Festival will be held at Winchester for 2024
Thursday 11th July – Sunday 14th July 2024
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Bringing together the renowned choirs of Chichester, Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals,
to offer sacred choral and organ music performed to the very highest standard.
We very much look forward to welcoming you to Winchester.
The 2024 Festival will include:
Thursday 11th July
5.30pm Opening Informal Service with Winchester Cathedral Choir
7.00pm ‘ Phantom of the Opera’ Improvised concert with Jonathan Hope
(Assistant Director of Music, Gloucester Cathedral)
9.00pm Festival Fringe
Friday 12th July
10.00am Mattins The Choirs of Chichester and Salisbury Cathedrals
11.00am Chamber Music Recital St Michael’s Church, Kingsgate Street
2.00pm Lecture
4.30pm Choral Evensong (recorded by BBC Radio 3)
5.45pm Patrons’ Reception
7.00pm Come and sing Faure Requiem with Bob Chilcott (conductor) with the girl
Choristers of Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals and the lay clerks of all
three cathedrals
9.00pm Festival Fringe
Saturday 13th July
11.00am Festival Eucharist
12.30pm Informal Festival lunch (Hog roast and assorted salads)
2.30pm Outreach Concert with Winchester Cathedral Junior Choir and local schools
6.00pm Concert with choristers and lay clerks from all three cathedrals and brass
ensemble to include Philip Moore’s At the round earth’s imagined corners
(commissioned for the 2011 Southern Cathedrals Festival) and John Rutter’s Gloria
Sunday 14th July
Services sung by Winchester Cathedral Choir
Full details and booking information to follow early in 2024!
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