Current Music List:
| Michaelmas Term 2011 |
Recent Music Lists:
| Easter Term 2011 | (html) | (.pdf) |
| Lent Term 2011 | (html) | (.pdf) |
| Michaelmas Term 2010 | (html) | (.pdf) |
| Easter Term 2010 | (html) | (.pdf) |
| Lent Term 2010 | (html) | (.pdf) |
| Michaelmas Term 2009 | (html) | (.pdf) |
Services, Rehearsals and Repertoire
The College’s Director of Music, Dr Martin Ennis, has overall responsibility for music at Girton, but he is assisted in this task by the Director of Chapel Music, Nicholas Mulroy, who is responsible for the running of the choir, and the organ scholars (see Choir Personnel for details). The choir also has the privilege to work regularly with guest directors including, in recent years, Judith Clurman (Head of Choral Studies at the Juilliard School in New York), Sir David Willcocks, Dr Christopher Robinson and David Lowe.
The choir sings a full Choral Evensong and Compline each week, rehearsing for these and other engagements (such as the annual All Souls' Requiem or Ascension Day Eucharist) four times a week.
In addition to its chapel duties in Cambridge, the choir often deputises for the major cathedral choirs. Cathedrals (anf other major churches) visited in recent years include York Minster, Lincoln Minster, St Edmundsbury, Worcester, Canterbury, Norwich, Salisbury, Exeter, Lincoln, Coventry, and Westminster Abbey.
The choir’s repertoire is very varied, ranging from Byrd to Britten and beyond. Recent highlights have included several first performances, one of them the English première of Kenneth Leighton’s Hymn to Matter, another the first performance of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Nico Muhly, sometime assistant to Philip Glass. Rising composers Tim Watts and James Lark have written several pieces for the choir. Services can involve instrumental contributions; recent examples include a string quartet accompaniment of a Mozart mass, or a composition for choir, organ, piano, oboe and flute.
Though the bulk of the choir’s repertoire is sacred, concerts and college functions provide ample opportunity to explore secular works. Few other Cambridge choirs can offer such a varied palette of musical experience at such a high level.