Due to the timing of Easter this year, we won’t be singing an Evensong on the first Saturday of April. Instead we’ll be singing one on Saturday 28 March. The service setting will be Walmisley in D minor. We sang this setting on our 2017-18 tour in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Our stay in Oxford... Continue Reading →
Organ recital: Martin Setchell (NZ): this Sunday 29 March, 2:30pm Martin Setchell hails from Blackpool in the UK, and studied music at Exeter University. He pursued further organ studies with such luminaries as Pierre Cochereau, Marie-Claire Alain, Piet Kee, and Peter Hurford. Moving to New Zealand in 1974, he joined the University of Canterbury’s School... Continue Reading →
We’ve just returned from our choir tour, singing in some of the oldest and most beautiful cathedrals in the world – but we still feel really blessed to be able to sing every week in such a beautiful church – and in such a wonderful acoustic – as Pilgrim. Our next evensong is this Saturday,... Continue Reading →
We launch our 2026 International Organist Series with a free lunchtime recital, 1pm Thursday 12 March. Christopher Trikilis is Director of Music at Brisbane’s Cathedral of St Stephen, and will be presenting a rich and varied program at Pilgrim Uniting Church, on South Australia’s largest pipe organ. Chris' recital kicks off another fantastic year of... Continue Reading →
Tonight was the final evensong in our tour, in the historic St George’s Chapel Windsor. It is hard to describe what it is like to sing in this building steeped in history, processing in over the graves of monarchs who did not even dream of Australia. It is a true privilege to have experienced this,... Continue Reading →
5 January: We sang Solemn Evensong on Epiphany Eve in the quire of Canterbury Cathedral. The introit was Paul Edwards' setting of Paul Wigmore's poem ‘No small wonder’, the service setting was the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D major by George Dyson, and the anthem was 'The magi's gifts' by Richard Allain. Once again,... Continue Reading →
Saturday 3 January: Evensong featuring the Brewer in D service with Paul Edwards’ ‘No small wonder’ as the anthem. Sunday 4 January: Choral Eucharist with Becky McGlade’s Missa Brevis and Lucy Walker’s setting of ‘Away in a manger’ as the communion motet; then Evensong featuring Noble in B minor and McGlade’s anthem ‘What child is... Continue Reading →
1 January: We sang one of our all-time favourite evensong settings, the Howells Gloucester Service, in one of our all-time favourite acoustics: Hereford Cathedral. The anthem was Lucy Walker's 'Away in a manger'. There is something really special about singing in Hereford Cathedral: the Norman architecture has a unique beauty, the acoustic is both richly... Continue Reading →
31 December: On the last day of 2025 we sang Evensong in Worcester Cathedral, featuring the Dyson in D service with Becky McGlade's 'What child is this?' as the anthem. Worcester Cathedral is the only cathedral that has been on the itinerary of all three of our choir tours, and once again it was wonderful... Continue Reading →