Truro Cathedral Choir: Peace on Earth

Truro Cathedral's celebrated choir presents a spectacular selection of festive music to get you into the Christmas spirit. With favourite carols including O come all ye faithful and While Shepherds Watched, the programme spans everything from the 16th-century to present-day classics. Set in the inspiring surroundings of Truro Cathedral with the sounds of our Cornish choristers soaring around, this varied concert is guaranteed to give you some Christmas cheer!

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Truro Cathedral Choir

Truro Cathedral Choir has an unbroken tradition dating back to the 1880s, when services took place in a wooden shed while John Loughborough Pearson’s cathedral was under construction. Today, the choir usually performs with either its boy and girl choristers (aged 8-13) or its senior girl choristers (aged 13-18), joined by its twelve adult professional singers.

The twelve adult professional singers comprise seven Lay Vicars (permanent members of the choir) and five Choral Scholars (pre- or post-university students from all over the country and further afield).

The younger choristers are aged 8 to 13, and the senior girl choristers are aged 13 to 18; all attend Truro School and its preparatory school, where scholarships and bursaries are available, with the aim that selection is based purely on ability.

As well as singing at seven services each week, the choir undertakes regular concerts, broadcasts, webcasts, foreign tours, and CD recordings. The choir has appeared on BBC1, BBC2, BBC4, and ITV, as well as taking part in regular live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. In May 2023, Truro’s girl choristers were among the first women in history to sing at a British coronation, performing alongside other world-class musicians for the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Westminster Abbey. The choir’s recordings have included single-composer discs of music by Maurice Duruflé, Louis Vierne, Benjamin Britten, Philip Stopford, Gabriel Jackson and Dobrinka Tabakova. A wealth of new music has been written specially for the choir by many of the UK’s leading composers.

Truro Cathedral Choir sings at the 5.30pm services most weeks during term time on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Sunday sung services are at 10.00am and 4.00pm.

Further details about services, concerts, choristerships and choral scholarships can be found at www.trurocathedral.org.uk/music