The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Voted the fifth best choir in the world in Gramophone magazine’s ‘20 Greatest Choirs’, The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge comprises around thirty Choral Scholars and two Organ Scholars, all of whom are students at the University.
During term The Choir’s main focus is the singing of the liturgy in the College Chapel; outside term, the Choir gives regular concert performances and tours internationally.
The Choir’s extensive discography includes Howells’ Collegium Regale, which won Australia’s Limelight Recording of the Year in 2016; Howells’ Requiem & other works, which won a Gramophone Award in 2012; and Beyond All Mortal Dreams, settings of contemporary American a cappella music, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the same year.
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Choral & Organ Scholars in recital at Trinity College Music Society
Over the vacation, we're proudly showcasing the wider musical skills and adventures of Trinity's Choral and Organ Scholars, who are highly active in the College and University' diverse musical scene, and especially as part of Trinity's own music society, TCMS.
This week, we're re-sharing a performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.1 by tenor Choral Scholar Peter Ostrovsky and the TCMS Orchestra conducted by Junior Organ Scholar Thomas Simpson (both pictured below receiving applause at the conclusion of the performance).
WATCH: youtube.com/live/lv1Ha5wtWPw?si=N460w4Ps_bB-3hbR&t…
Many thanks to Peter, Thomas and to TCMS for their kind permission to re-share this performance.
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Choral & Organ Scholars in recital at Trinity College Music Society
Over the vacation, we're proudly showcasing the wider musical skills and adventures of Trinity's Choral and Organ Scholars, who are highly active in the College and University' diverse musical scene, and especially as part of Trinity's own music society, TCMS.
This week, we're re-sharing a sumptuous choral concert including Thomas Tallis's 40-part motet 'Spem in Alium' devised and conducted by soprano Choral Scholar Sarah Chapman (pictured in concert and non-concert modes!).
WATCH: youtube.com/live/lAyuwGRs2Tw?si=SxDW3yhbhiZpXBcW&t…
Many thanks to Sarah and to TCMS for their kind permission to re-share this performance.
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Choral & Organ Scholars in recital at Trinity College Music Society
Over the vacation, we're proudly showcasing the wider musical skills and adventures of Trinity's Choral and Organ Scholars, who are highly active in the College and University' diverse musical scene, and especially as part of Trinity's own music society, TCMS.
This week, we're re-sharing a recital based on Telemann's Concerto for Recorder and Flute, TWV 52:e1, devised and led by bass Choral Scholar and flautist Oscar Wickham (pictured with members of the ensemble), and also featuring soprano Choral Scholar Rosamund Elias Turner (pictured).
WATCH: youtube.com/live/6UwMyMiyG9I?si=62KG_ClY5RQDTXGC&t…
Many thanks to Oscar, Rosalind and to TCMS for their kind permission to re-share this performance.
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Regular livestreams resume this Sunday 25 January with a special Epiphany Carol Service at 6.15pm GMT, preceded by Organ Music Before Evensong at 5.40pm GMT.
Our website carries full details of all Lent Term services and music - we look forward to welcoming visitors from around the world to our livestreams, whether live or on catch-up.
trinitycollegechoir.com/
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
🕯️Advent Carol Service 2025
📅Sunday 30 November 2025, Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
🔴YouTube livestream from 5.45pm GMT
Join our traditional candlelit Advent Carol Service here on YouTube. The livestream will begin with Organ Music at 5.45pm GMT; the service starts at 6.15pm GMT.
The livestream will be available to view on catch-up following the service. We look forward to welcoming regular and first-time viewers from around the world to this beautiful service of music, readings, and contemplation.
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 - out today on @HyperionRecordsMusic
🎧Listen on @YouTube > shorturl.at/nlJsC
"Let All The World In Every Corner Sing"
This companion album to 'Anthems' (2023), and the Choir’s final album under Dr Stephen Layton, presents a further selection of nineteenth and twentieth century masterworks for choir and organ. Diverse in style and conception, every piece thrillingly exploits the dramatic potential of Anglican text, architecture and soundworld.
The album is out now on streaming, CD and audiophile download. Also released today a music video from sessions at Ely Cathedral - watch here on YouTube or, for the first time, as an in-track video option on@Spotify .
Our website discography page lists every single Trinity recording and significant compilations since our first LPs from the 1980s. Explore the archive: trinitycollegechoir.com/recordings/
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Our forthcoming new release on Hyperion Records is the final album recorded by the Choir under its former Director of Music Dr Stephen Layton. 'Let all the world in every corner sing' is a sequel to the critically-acclaimed 'Anthems' of 2023, recorded again in the gloriously spacious acoustic of Ely Cathedral.
Ahead of the full album release on 31 October, we're pleased to share a second teaser track: the triumphant "quasi-orchestral" 'Evening Hymn'/'Te lucis ante terminum' of Henry Balfour Gardiner. Enjoy it here on YouTube!
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Last weekend saw over 100 current and former Choral and Organ Scholars (pictured below) reunited for a special Trinity College Choir Association Evensong.
Regular livestreams resume this Sunday with Choral Evensong at 6.15pm preceded by Organ Music Before Evensong at 5.40pm.
We look forward to welcoming our YouTube audience back to Trinity College Chapel for this service, and for services throughout the Easter Term. This term we continue to focus on the music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in his 500th anniversary year, and to celebrate the talents of our student composers at Trinity with a series of introits.
The Easter Term services list, including full service music details, is available now from our website:
trinitycollegechoir.com/
Photo: David Johnson Photographic
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*New video series* - Choral & Organ Scholars in recital at Trinity College Music Society
Over the vacation, we're proudly showcasing the wider musical skills and adventures of Trinity's Choral and Organ Scholars, who are highly active in the College and University' diverse musical scene, and especially as part of Trinity's own music society, TCMS. Each Friday, we'll be re-sharing a past TCMS concert livestream.
This week, we're re-sharing a glorious final Trinity recital of Strauss songs by former Choral Scholar Katherine Gregory with pianist Madeleine Brown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKvB7...
Many thanks to Katherine, Madeleine and to TCMS for their kind permission to re-share this performance.
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
*New video series* - Choral & Organ Scholars in recital at Trinity College Music Society
Over the vacation, we're proudly showcasing the wider musical skills and adventures of Trinity's Choral and Organ Scholars, who are highly active in the College and University' diverse musical scene, and especially as part of Trinity's own music society, TCMS. Each Friday, we'll be re-sharing a past TCMS concert livestream.
To launch this series, we're re-sharing an appropriately triumphant performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 by former Choral Scholar Dominika Mak and the TCMS Orchestra conducted by current Choral Scholar Sam Gray (both pictured).
Watch the concert:
youtube.com/live/nUpziF2tbEc?si=GmfciHWPjBER9pbe&t…
The concert programme is available at:
www.tcms.org.uk/_files/ugd/70433d_c9db3d17f10e4c68…
Many thanks to Dominika, Sam and to TCMS for their kind permission to re-share this performance.
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