Queens’ College Chapel Choir is one of the leading mixed-voice choirs in Cambridge; it prides itself on the freshness of its interpretation, its commitment to quality, and the broad scope of its repertoire. In October 2011 the growing reputation of the choir was reflected in its participation, along with the choirs of King’s, John’s and Trinity, in a Festival Weekend celebrating the music of Stanford and Howells: the choir’s recital of partsongs included Howells’s late masterpiece ‘Sweetest of Sweets’, conducted by its dedicatee, Sir David Willcocks.

While twentieth-century music forms the core of the choir’s repertoire, the choir increasingly performs Baroque and contemporary music, reflecting the specialisms of the Director of Music. The choir is regularly joined by a group of student instrumentalists, the Queens’ Chapel Players, enabling the liturgical performance of concerted music. The Choir’s CD recordings have attracted widespread critical acclaim. Their next disc, to be released later this year, mixes carols on late medieval English texts with settings of the great Advent Antiphons. In recent years the Choir has been to Hong Kong, New York, France, Germany, Southern Italy and Belgium; in the summer they will perform in Hungary.