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Woman Composer Repertoire Day – Come & Sing
Thanks to a generous grant from the Ecclesiastical Music Trust, a workshop exploring choral music by women composers is to be held at St Giles’s, Cripplegate on Saturday 15 July. It ...
Music Sunday is in sight!
There is still time to plan to join Music Sunday on 11th June. We are delighted to have heard from some churches already, but it would be fabulous to have as many churches as possible ...
Did you Sing for the King?
We are delighted that so many choirs of all different descriptions have already sung our specially commissioned anthem, The mountains shall being peace, in order to celebrate the Coronation ...
Pedalling Practice
Training for the Director’s Challenge continues – Hugh and Paul have had their first outing on the tandem with a ride or two around the Close in Salisbury! This first tentative trip was ...
RSCM choirs visit York and Salisbury
Two of our regional adult choirs, Northern Cathedral Singers and Voices West, are looking forward to a bank holiday of singing on Monday (1st May). NCS are returning to York Minster to sing ...
Sing for the King!
Uniting in song! With the Coronation just over a week away, groups are already singing this special anthem commissioned by the RSCM and composed by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange. As well as ...
Church Choir Award 2023
The Royal School of Church Music and Cathedral Music Trust (CMT) are both deeply aware of the vital role that church choirs play in developing the UK’s rich choral music heritage through ...
Stainer’s Crucifixion performance at St Marylebone, using the RSCM’s new critical edition
St Marylebone Parish Church was the venue of the first ever performance of Stainer’s masterpiece, The Crucifixion. It has been performed there every year since, usually on Good Friday, ...
Music to celebrate the Coronation
As we approach the forthcoming Coronation in May, our Sunday by Sunday team have put together appropriate suggestions for hymns and anthems that can be used in a church service to ...
Church Music Conference
Delegates from across the UK and indeed the world gathered online last Saturday for the RSCM Church Music Conference. The tone for the day was set by the Very Revd Stephen Hance, the Church ...