The Carlisle Cathedral Choir is delighted to welcome you for their Summer Concert
Join Carlisle Cathedral for a summer evening of great music beneath their starlight ceiling, featuring the Boy and Girl Choristers, Consort and Lay Clerks, accompanied by the Cathedral organ.
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The programme will comprise choral and organ masterworks from the French and English traditions, including Louis Vierne's Messe Solennelle, Herbert Howell's Te Deum (Collegium Regale), and David Briggs' hauntingly beautiful Ubi Caritas. There will also be an opportunity to find out more about the upcoming project to renew, restore and revitalise the Father Willis organ.
Carlisle Cathedral Choir dates back at least as far as the new foundation of the Cathedral in 1541. The Cathedral Statutes of 1545 provided for six choristers, ‘boys of tender age, and with sonorous voices and apt at chanting’.
Today, the choir comprises up to sixteen boy choristers, the same number of girl choristers, six regular lay clerks with additional choral scholars and deputy lay clerks. Until 1935 the choristers were educated at the Cathedral’s own choir school; today the children are recruited from local day schools, and each set of choristers attends the Cathedral on alternate Sundays and on two weeknights in rotation.
Concert starts at 7.30pm.
How To Find Us
Carlisle Cathedral, The Abbey, Carlisle, CA3 8TZ
