Saint Cecilia Singers

30/03/2026

What a lovely, peaceful, atmospheric service that was! We do it all again tomorrow and Wednesday in the Lady Chapel at Gloucester Cathedral.
📸 Craig J Huxley-Jones

30/03/2026

We’re delighted to welcome you to the beautiful Lady Chapel at Gloucester Cathedral this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm of Holy Week for lectures from the celebrated poet, author and theologian, The Venerable Dr Rachel Mann.

Followed by the ancient and beautiful service of Compline at 8pm by the Saint Cecilia Singers. A gentle, reflective close to the day, tonight’s music includes Purcell’s Hear my prayer, O Lord, Psalm 104, and Bruckner’s Christus factus est.

No booking is required.

Discover more about Holy Week and Easter at Gloucester Cathedral on the website 👉 https://gloucestercathedral.org.uk/whats-on/holy-week-and-easter-2026

Enter into the stillness of Holy Week with us... 🙏

29/03/2026

We're pleased to sing Compline at Gloucester Cathedral on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week at 8pm.
Compline is a beautiful service of quietness and reflection before rest at the end of the day, and will be sung in the Lady Chapel.
Jonathan Hope Craig J Huxley-Jones

Monday:
Hear my prayer O Lord, Purcell
Psalm 104
Christus factus est, Bruckner

Tuesday:
O haupt voll Blut und Wunden, Bach
Psalm 31
Quis est homo, Byrd

Wednesday:
Um unsrer Sunden willen, Mendelssohn
Psalm 70
Caro mea vere est cibus, Guerrero

21/02/2026

Tonight we sang Evensong in Gloucester Cathedral and celebrated the 50th anniversary of Elvin Young joining the Saint Cecilia Singers by raising a glass to him afterwards in the Chapter House.

We were joined by several former Singers, former musical director Andrew Millington (who auditioned Elvin to join the choir in 1976) and many friends in the congregation.

Elvin was Treasurer of the choir for 16 years and is also our honorary Archivist, keeping a record of our programmes dating back to 1948.

In recognition of this, we presented Elvin with a special artwork showing the names of all the composers whose work we've sung over the years.

Congratulations Elvin Young🥂 🎶

02/01/2026

Epiphany Sunday - this Sunday 4 January, 10.15am 🙏

"We three Kings of Orient are, bearing gifts we traverse afar" 👑👑👑

All are warmly welcome to join us for the Cathedral Eucharist for the Celebration of the Epiphany, when we will commemorate the visit of the Three Kings to the baby Jesus Christ. We are delighted to be led in song by the brilliant Saint Cecilia Singers.

Did you know ‘Epiphany' comes from the Greek 'to reveal' as it is when the baby Jesus was revealed to the world?

No booking required and everyone is welcome!

30/12/2025

In what's become a valued annual tradition, we're pleased to sing the Epiphany services on Sunday while Gloucester Cathedral Choir is on its well deserved break. With Artistic Director Jonathan Hope as organist and led by deputy conductor Charlotte Baskerville

Eucharist (10.15am)
Setting: Byrd, Mass for four voices
Motet: Palestrina, Canite tuba

Evensong (3pm)
Introit: Sally Beamish, In the stillness
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm: 98
Canticles: Stanford in C
Anthem: Jonathan Dove, The three kings

02/12/2025

Come and hear the of The Christmas Singers by Charlotte Baskerville in our concert of festive music old and new.

22/11/2025

Happy Saint Cecilia's Day to all our followers 🙈

A for St Cecilia's Day.

You're welcome, world. Nobody asked for this. Nobody needed it. Nevertheless, here it is.

This is also the 100th we've birthed. It wasn't intended to be the 100th - there are worse to come - but here it is, for Cecilia. It's what she would have wanted.

13/11/2025

Lovely evening at for their Christmas Lights switch on.

13/11/2025

We were delighted to be invited to the Gloucester Food Dock Christmas Lights switch on to entertain the crowds with carols. Thank you for having us!