Our June evensong will feature something a bit special: we’ll be singing a Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by Australian composer Joseph Twist. Joe is one of Australia’s most in-demand composers, and is equally at home writing incidental music for the international hit children’s animation Bluey, concert pieces for famous symphony orchestras such as the Los... Continue Reading →
We are very excited to be welcoming Vincent Dubois to the Pilgrim organ console in just under a month. Vincent is one of the titular organists at Notre-Dame-de-Paris, along with Olivier Latry (who played at Pilgrim in 2018 and 2024) and Thierry Escaich (he must be next!). This will be Vincent’s second recital at Pilgrim,... Continue Reading →
For our May evensong the service setting will be Stanford in C. The last time we sang this was in the vast expanse of Liverpool Cathedral! Here are some photos from that time, showing the behind-the-scenes of singing evensong in an English cathedral. This experience will be very much in our minds as we sing... Continue Reading →
Our evensongs are amongst the services most appreciated by our congregations – and best loved by the choir. It all started on the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing, when we sang our first evensong in recent times (photo). We sang Howells’ Collegium Regale setting, and Ireland’s famous anthem, “Greater love hath no man”. We... Continue Reading →
We are excited to have Holly Broadbent at Pilgrim this week, as part of our International Organist Series. Tickets $40 / $30 at the door or online: https://www.trybooking.com/DKJVQ. Holly Broadbent is Principal Organist at St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth, and recently returned to Australia after completing a Master of Music degree in organ performance at Yale... Continue Reading →
Some of the most beautiful music ever composed was written for Holy Week and Easter. We look forward to being able to share the following with you: Good Friday Service at 9:30am: Lotti’s Crucifixus à 8, Adelaide composer Bruce Stewart’s ‘The Ninth Hour’, Croce’s ‘O vos omnes’, Stopford's 'Ave verum corpus', and Samuel Wesley’s beautiful... Continue Reading →
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 →