Event Calendar
Cambridge Cantat 800
Supported by the 2009 Fund
Tickets for all concerts now on sale: click here for booking information. For general information, contact Matthew Ross, Festival Manager, at cantat800@gmail.com.
At the heart of Cambridge University's 800th birthday celebrations will be Cambridge Cantat 800, a week-long festival of choral and organ music showcasing the very best that the Cambridge choral tradition has to offer. You will find during our Festival week events to suit all tastes. Organ and choral recitals galore, workshops and participatory events, a song recital and late-night services. The Haydn anniversary is marked in several of our programmes, while Cambridge composers and manuscripts feature in others. We are delighted to welcome three distinguished former Cambridge music directors: David Hill will conduct a massed choir in our Festal Evensong (Wednesday), Christopher Robinson will be giving a conducting masterclass (Friday) and John Rutter will host a Come and Sing event (Saturday). Cambridge buildings are another star attraction, including a rare opportunity to hear a concert in the University's Senate House. From lunchtime until late there will be events of all descriptions. But the purpose of the Festival is not merely celebration. Through workshops and Come and Sing events, through educational links forged between schools and colleges, and through the very diversity of events on offer, we hope that the Festival will stimulate further thoughts about how our music making, in these beautiful, charmed chapels of Cambridge, can contribute to our national culture.
Holy Saturday 11 April
7.30pm Haydn Celebration
Easter Day Sunday 12 April
10.30am Sung Eucharist at King's College
3.30pm Festal Evensong at King's College
Easter Monday 13 April
4.00pm Simon Preston plays the organ of King's College
Tuesday 14 April
5.00pm Stephen Farr plays the organ of Jesus College
7.30pm Choral Concert - The Amaryllis Consort & Choir of Caius College
10.00pm Late-Night Liturgy
Wednesday 15 April
4.00pm Festal Evensong at Ely Cathedral
7.30pm Celebrity Song Recital
10.00pm Late-Night Cabaret with the Gentlemen of St John's
Thursday 16 April
2.30pm Family Singing Workshop
5.00pm Andrew Reid plays the organ of St Catharine's College
7.30pm Music for Degrees
10.00pm Late-Night Liturgy
Friday 17 April
2.00pm Conducting Masterclass with Christopher Robinson
5.00pm Frescobaldi - The European (Recital by Christopher Stembridge at Magdalene College)
7.30pm Choral Concert - Choir of Clare College
10.00pm Late-Night Liturgy
Saturday 18 April
11.00am Come and Sing with John Rutter
7.30pm Choral Concert - Choir of St John's College
10.00pm Late-Night Liturgy
Sunday 19 April
1.00pm Lunchtime Choral Recital - Choir of Trinity College
6.30pm Festal Evensong at St John's College
Cambridge Cantat 800 and the Cambridge Music Festival are launching Cambridge Choral Partnerships, an exciting education programme. Click here for more information.
With thanks to:
North Wales Choral Festival
Europa Cantat XVII Utrecht