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Winchester Cathedral Choir is an internationally recognized professional choir based at Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire. The choir currently consists of 18 boy choristers, 18 girl choristers and 12 lay clerks and sings eight services weekly in the Cathedral. Additionally, 18 girl choristers typically sing one service a week as ...
The Cathedral Girls' Choir was founded in 1999 and is made up of 20 girls between the ages of 12 and 17, who are educated across Hampshire. The girls' choir sing a weekly Sunday service with the Lay Clerks during term time and unite with the boys for the major festivals of Christmas and Easter. [66]
In 1998 Sarah moved to Winchester Cathedral where she founded the Girls' Choir and in 2002 became assistant director of Music, accompanying the Choir in daily services, tours, broadcasts and recordings. During her time in Winchester she was accompanist to the Waynflete Singers and Organ Performance Tutor at the University of Southampton.
She had particular responsibility for the girl choristers and also taught at Winchester College. [3] In 2024 Grinnell became Organist and Director of Master at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The first woman appointed to the role, she is responsible for the cathedral's five choirs as well as a programme of concerts and ...
The cathedral has a girls choir and a boys choir, who sing regularly in the cathedral. Winchester Cathedral Close contains a number of historic buildings from the time when the cathedral was also a priory. Of particular note is the Deanery, which dates back to the 13th century.
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1980–1982 David Hill (later successively Organist and Director of Music at Westminster Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, St John's College, Cambridge and Director of the Bach Choir) 1982–1991 Ian Shaw; 1991 Ralph Woodward (Acting) 1991–2011 Keith Wright; 2011–2019 Francesca Massey; 2019–present Joseph Beech
"Winchester Cathedral" is a song by the New Vaudeville Band, a British novelty group established by the song's composer, Geoff Stephens, and was released in late 1966 by Fontana Records. It reached number 1 in Canada on the RPM 100 chart, co-charting with the Dana Rollin version, [ 5 ] and shortly thereafter in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 ...