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2nd October 2026

Michaelmas 2026 Termcard

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Michaelmas Termcard 2026

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  • 📣 New album release day! 💿 “The performances are impeccable” (MusicWeb International) ‘Reaching Farther’ our new album on @signumrecords, is released worldwide today! The recording marks the 700th anniversary of @clarecollege 1326-2026 with a programme of works commissioned for and closely associated with @choirofclarecollege, performed under Director of Music Graham Ross. The album spans composers with direct connections to Clare, including works written for the Choir by John Tavener, @mcdowall.cecilia, @matthewm76, Giles Swayne, @johnrutter.composer, @kevintheharris20, and @nicomuhly’s title anthem, through to further world premiere recordings of works by Clare alumni William Denis Browne, @l.zucchi47, @simonjdhall, new canticles by @heloisewerner @mrgrahamross and current undergraduate @thomasalban307, as well as a rare first recording of a work by former Clare Organ Scholar Ayo Bankole, recovered after considerable research. 🎧 Stream / Download / Purchase: https://orcd.co/reachingfarther #ReachingFarther #newalbum #ClareCollege #ClareChoir #700anniversary
  • 🎫 Tickets on sale: Duruflé Requiem in Concert for All Souls’ Tuesday 3 November 2026, 7.45pm @chapelofclarecollege Tickets £20 (£10 students) from @adcticketing 🔗 https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/concert/concert-for-all-souls/
  • 📻 Tune in to In Tune tomorrow! We perform live in the @bbcradio3 studio with @mrgrahamross, talking to @thekatiederham about our new album Reaching Farther, released worldwide next week on #SignumRecords, celebrating the 700th anniversary of @clarecollege. 🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032hxt
  • @ClareCollege launches the Clare College Song Competition 2027, open to all members of the @cambridgeuniversity, with First Prize of £400 and a recital at @smitf_london St Martin-in-the-Fields for the winning duo, £200 Second Prize, and £150 Pianist’s Prize, plus a Masterclass opportunity with tenor @andrewstaples_official. The deadline for submission of entries is 18 November 2026. 🔗 https://www.clarecollegechoir.com/application-open-for-clare-college-song-competition-2027 #clarecollege #songcompetition #artsong #cambridge #competition
  • Take him, earth, for cherishing… 👌🏻 A celebration of Herbert Howells for our first Sunday Choral Evensong of the year tomorrow at 6pm BST. Join us live in person @chapelofclarecollege or LiveStreamed as always on our @youtube channel. Howells’ organ voluntaries frame a service that includes two of his choral works with American roots: the rarely-performed Dallas Service, and his much-loved anthem ‘Take him, earth, for cherishing’ written for the memorial of J. F. Kennedy. The service also includes music by Undine Smith Moore and Kenneth Leighton, and is preceded by a 5.25pm recital of Bach and Franck by Clare’s Sir William McKie Senior Organ Scholar @j.costard24. Drinks and Dinner in @clarecollege Great Hall follow Evensong - all welcome. #Clare #Cambridge #ChoralEvensong #Howells #choir @choirofclarecollege @mrgrahamross 📸 @hedgehoghugh
  • A new song… The new academic year begins today, with our first Choral Evensong of Term tonight at 6.15pm, @chapelofclarecollege. Music by Ayo Bankole, Leighton, Bairstow, and ‘A new song’ by James MacMillan. 45 minutes of music, liturgy and peace to end the working day - all welcome. #newyear #newterm #newsong #Clare #ChoralEvensong @clarecollege @choirofclarecollege @mrgrahamross 📸 @andrewstaples_official
  • We’re excited to share ‘Magnificat’, the third single from our forthcoming album, ‘Reaching Farther’. These settings of the canticles by our Director of Music @mrgrahamross here receive their premiere recording. “My Clare Service, written during an enjoyable week in the summer of 2024 for the Choir for a @bbcradio3 broadcast that year, explores the more tender side of Mary in the Magnificat, with a fragile melodic fragment in the opening organ accompaniment serving as the nucleus for much of the musical material of both canticles”. ‘Reaching Farther’ spans works by composers with direct connections to @clarecollege, from William Denis Browne’s canticles composed as a student in 1911, through to world premiere recordings of new commissions including @nicomuhly’s title anthem, @heloisewerner’s canticles, and a setting by current undergraduate @thomasalban307. 🎧 Listen now! ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/track/0O8yBOktBwiZyE1JY4s6Rv?si=iBlw4ZIbSF6_y0wRDVFLGw&utm_source=copy-link #clarecambridge #choral #classical #newsingle #Magnficat
  • 👏 A wonderful first few days with our new Choir members! A big @choirofclarecollege welcome to Zach, Oscar, Levi, Leo, Alex, Eva, Otis, Aurora, Jerry, Hannah, Yipeng, Zoë, and Anna! ❤️ And our huge thanks once again to Rev’d Simon Taylor and @standrewstapleford for hosting us so generously today for our first service of the year. 🕯️ Choral services at @chapelofclarecollege resume next Thursday, with many highlights this Michaelmas Term including Duruflé Requiem, a joint service with our sister College @orieloxford, our popular Advent Carol Services with a new commission from @cherylhoad, and a 2-week tour across USA with @mrgrahamross to bring our year-long 700th anniversary celebrations to a close. 📖 Full details of all music and services for the Michaelmas Term in the Termcard here: https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-09/Updated%20Michaelmas%20Termcard%202026.pdf #ClareChoir @clarecollege @cambridgeuniversity #newyear #newterm #newchoir #Clare
  • 🥉 🏆 Starting the week off as No. 3 in @applemusic’s Choral Chill with our new single ‘Now the day is over’ by @joshua.pacey! One of the tracks of our new @signumrecords album ‘Reaching Farther’, released worldwide next month. (Also nice to see our recent Palestrina album feature as No. 4!) @choirofclarecollege @mrgrahamross @signumrecords #ReachingFarther #Applemusic #ChoralChill #playlist https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/choral-chill/pl.199a4a15f63741538e0c8e271ed2a347

clarechoir

Clare College Choir

@clarechoir ·
23 Oct

📣 New album release day! 💿

‘Reaching Farther’, our new album on @SignumRecords, marks the 700th anniversary of @ClareCollege with a programme of works closely associated with @ClareChoir, performed under Director of Music @mrgrahamross. Out today!

🎧 https://orcd.co/reachingfarther

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