CLARE COLLEGE CHOIR, CAMBRIDGE In addition to its primary task of leading chapel services, the Choir of Clare College gives frequent concerts, both in the United Kingdom and abroad. It has toured to many countries, including the United States of America, Russia, the Middle and Far East, and countries within Western and Eastern Europe. The choir performs frequently in Britain’s major concert halls with many of the country’s leading orchestras, and regularly contributes to the Choral Evensong broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. Outstanding successes in recent seasons have included sellout tours throughout Europe with leading period instrument orchestras, and highly acclaimed performances at many major European music festivals, including the Munich Opera Festival and the Salzburg Festival. The choir regularly commissions new music and has had works written for it by Christopher Brown, Andrew Carter, Jonathan Dove, Herbert Howells, Nico Muhly, Julian Phillips, Tarik O’ Regan, John Rutter, Giles Swayne and James Whitbourn. The choir has made many acclaimed CD recordings, including a release of Rutter’s Requiem (Naxos 8.557130), which in May 2003 was an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine and topped the classical charts several weeks running, and in 2005 was nominated for a Classical BRIT Award. The Choir’s recording of John Stainer’s The Crucifixion was released on Naxos in May 2005.
Photo © Andrew Houston
| 
Tell a Friend |
Digg It |
Del.icio.us. |
Facebook |
FURL |
MySpace |
StumbleUpon |
Twitter
