Special events

Events at Truro Cathedral

The Cathedral holds a wide range of both religious and secular events. We welcome all to attend. If you would like to go on our Events database to receive events information please use the Contact Us button to give us your details.

Please click here for pdf lising of Summer Events 2010



Inspire Cornwall Appeal

Inspire Cornwall logo

The £4m Inspire Cornwall fundraising appeal is one which seeks to open up access to Cathedral resources and facilities to the community. This will be achieved through heritage, education, music & art, and nature.

Click here to download press release

To find out more visit the Inspire Cornwall website



James MacMillan and Cathedral Choir to give Benson Lecture Saturday 9th October 2010

James MacMillan composer and conductorConsidered to be the greatest living British composer of his generation, James MacMillan has produced a wide range of work, both secular and religious, both instrumental and choral. His Roman Catholic faith, Scottish heritage and vivid social conscience all play a significant role in his musical composition and his lecture will explore these themes. Truro Cathedral Choir will help to illustrate the lecture by performing a number of his works.

"What I'm trying to find is the communicative core in music, and that can be done just as well in modernist noises as in common chords. And just because I'm a religious composer doesn't mean the conflict and stress you get in modernism isn't relevant, in fact it's the reverse. For me religious faith is rooted in the mess of real life, and my music has to be true to that experience." James MacMillan

The 2010 Benson Lecture takes place at Truro Cathedral on Saturday 9th October starting at 7.30pm. Entry is by ticket only. Free tickets can be obtained by sending a SAE to Truro Cathedral Office, 14 St Mary’s St, Truro, TR1 2AF.

A pre-lecture supper will be served in the Cathedral restaurant from 6pm. Reservations must be made in advance on 01872 245011.

A DVD of the lecture will be available later in the year by writing to the above address. A suggested donation of £5 + stamps to the value of £1 for the DVD would be gratefully appreciated. For more information see www.trurocathedral.org.uk

To find out more clicke here for his Agents website and here for his musical publisher's website



IF I Can Dream Service with Johnny Cowling

jOHNNY cOWLING AND THE sWEET iNSPIRATIONSAll tickets for the Elvis Gospel Service on August 15th have been allocated and distributed. There are no more tickets available. There is a waiting list for any returned tickets. Send an SAE to Truro Cathedral Office, 14 St Mary's Street, TRURO, TR1 2AF.

 



Events at the Cathedral Summer 2010

This calendar is published as a guide to activities and events happening at the Cathedral in the Summer of 2010. These events may be subject to alteration. For up-to-date information about events please contact the Cathedral Office (01872 276782) or use this website. If you would like to join our events mailing list for regular updates about events at the Cathedral please send an email by clicking here.

JULY

Monday 5

10 – 5pm

Truro Cathedral Calendar Exhibition Stunning photographic images from our new fundraising calendar. Free

Friday 23

1.10pm

Peter Heginbotham (Sheffield) free lunchtime organ recital

Tuesday 27

7pm

Transition Truro  - Pearson Room

Friday 30

1.10pm

Simon Morley (Florida) free lunchtime organ recital

Saturday 31

1.30pm

Free lunchtime concert by 2nd Rossendale Scout Group Band

AUGUST

Monday 2

7.30pm

St Endellion Festival Concert The St Endellion Summer Festival's annual concert in the cathedral will include performances of Bach's Magnificat, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture and Poulenc's Gloria. Alongside the festival's chorus and orchestra the soloists will be Rachel Nicholls, Ruby Hughes, Kathyrn McAdam Mark Padmore and Matthew Brook. Tickets from HFC 01872 262466.

Wednesday 4

2.30pm

East London Chorus informal concert. East London Chorus is one of the most enterprising and talented choirs in the London region, performing a dynamic and challenging repertoire. Free all welcome. Programme

Friday 6

1.10pm

Simon Jacobs (Florida) free lunchtime organ recital

Friday 6

tbc

Jacquie Perry Poetry Reading around her paintings in the Pearson Room. Tickets £10 to include refreshments.

Wednesday 11

10.00am

Friends' Coffee Morning in the Pearson Room (10-11.30am) All welcome

Friday 13

1.10pm

Paul Walton (Bristol Cathedral) free lunchtime organ recital

Sunday 15

10am

Sunday Eucharist celebrating the patronal festival of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sunday 15

6.30pm

If I Can Dream………Elvis Anniversary Service with Johnny Cowling and the Sweet Inspirations. Johnny Cowling again performs the Gospel Music of Elvis Presley.
THIS SERVICE IS NOW FULL, ALL TICKETS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED

Friday 20

1.10pm

Stephen Binnington free lunchtime organ recital

Friday 20 7pm

Inspired by a Spire
Jackie Perry brings her own brand of art and poetry to this magical evening supporting Inspire Cornwall.
Tickets £10 from the Cathedral Office, 01872

Saturday 21

7.30pm

Evening Organ Recital by Nathan Laube Exciting young American talent with lightening fingers and feet. Nathan will perform dazzling arrangements of Rossini’s ‘William Tell Overture’ and ‘Die Fledermaus’ by Strauss.  Tickets £10 (students £7.50, U18 free) from Hall For Cornwall tel: 01872 262466 or www.hallforcornwall.co.uk.

Thursday 26

1pm

Informal lunchtime piano recital given by Charles Timberlake  Charles’ gentle, reflective music and unique style of playing brings a sense of deep inner peace into the heart of the listener. Free

Friday 27

1.10pm

John Sharples free lunchtime organ recital

Monday 30

9.30am

BANK HOLIDAY Cathedral opens at 9.30am

SEPTEMBER

Friday 3

1.10pm

David Bednall (Bristol Cathedral) free lunchtime organ recital

Wednesday 8

From 10am

Friends' Coffee Morning in the Pearson Room (10-11.30am) All welcome

Friday 10

1.10pm

Ben Giddens (Magdalen College Oxford)  free lunchtime organ recital

Saturday 11

9-5pm

Cornish wrasslin' on the Cathedral Green Traditional Cornish sport including stalls, food and drink.

Thursday 16

7.30pm for 8pm start

‘Would God let us destroy the world? ’a Truro Theological lecture given by Very Revd Dr Christopher Lewis, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford in the Chapter House. £4 on the door.

Friday 17

1.10pm

Philip Davey (Truro Methodist Church) free lunchtime organ recital

Friday 17

2.10pm

Northampton Male Voice Choir informal concert

Saturday 18

9am

Local Ministry Day

Monday 20

5.30pm

Solemn First Evensong of Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

Friday 24

9-5pm

Kate Walters Art Exhibition ink wash images that are in response to the works of St Francis of Assisi. Free (until 8 Oct).

Friday 24

1.10pm

Clive Ellison (Cornwall) free lunchtime organ recital

Saturday 25

7.30pm

Service of Thanksgiving celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution. In association with Cornwall Young Farmers Club.

Sunday 26

2pm

‘Year of the Seafarer Service’ paying tribute to the dangerous risks that seafarers take on our behalf and to acknowledge their unique contribution to society. All welcome.

Tuesday 28

5.30pm

Solemn First Evensong of Michael and All Angels