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5th July 2026

Summer Vacation

12:00am

Choral services resume on Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 6.15 p.m.

6th July 2026

Polychoral concert with Coro Clairière

8:30pm

STRIGGIO: MISSA ECCO SI BEATO GIORNO
TALLIS: SPEM IN ALIUM

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, UK
Clarière Choir, Lugano, Switzerland
Concerto Scirocco
Brunella Clerici & Graham Ross, conductors

Chiesa di San Fedele, Milan, Italy

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  • We’ve been busy! Our first week of summer touring last week began with a beautiful concert in Great Bardfield (where our Foundress Lady Elizabeth de Clare signed the Statutes of @clarecollege), two days of recording sessions for @signumrecords in London produced by @johnrutter.composer (👀 watch this space 💿), Graduation Day at Clare 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓, a beautiful barbecue hosted by John and JoAnne Rutter, and three days of rehearsals with the musicians of Coro Clarière and @concerto_scirocco from Switzlerland ahead of our sellout concert together on Saturday evening for @cambridgesummermusic: the first of three performances of Alessandro’s Striggio’s enormous 60-part Missa Ecco si beato giorno. Switzerland and Italy beckon! Stay tuned for imminent blog updates…! 🇨🇭 🇮🇹 #ClareChoir #touring #summer
  • Graduation Day! 🧑‍🎓 🧑‍🎓 With huge thanks to this year’s Choir leavers, Huatai, Isaac, John, Harry, Eoin, Jess, Evie, Daniel, Maya, Nick, Izzy, Maria Teresa, Holly and Emma, who between them have clocked up 38 years of service to @choirofclarecollege. But it’s not quite the end yet: four wonderful final concerts of the year this coming week in Cambridge 🇬🇧, Milan 🇮🇹, Lugano 🇨🇭 and Ischia 🇮🇹! #ClareCollege #graduation #ClareChoir #endofyear #university
  • At tonight’s 6pm Choral Evensong, our final Sunday of the academic year, we give the first complete performance of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by @heloisewerner (Clare 2010), commissioned by @mrgrahamross and @choirofclarecollege. The service also includes @carolineadelaideshaw’s ‘…and the swallow…’, Responses by @matthewm76, and Walton’s ‘The Twelve’, and is preceded by a 5.25pm organ recital by @eperfect_organist. 🕯️ All welcome, 6pm @chapelofclarecollege, or 🎥 livestreamed on our @youtube channel. #Clare #ClareMusic #Clare700 #ChoralEvensong #premiere
  • 📻 Next week on @bbcradio3 we broadcast Choral Evensong live from @chapelofclarecollege, with ‘A Ukrainian Prayer’ by former @clarecollege Director of Music @johnrutter.composer, Responses by Clare alumnus @joshua.pacey, the Westminster Service by Herbert Howells (who was commissioned in 1976 for the College’s then 650th anniversary), and the first broadcast of ‘Reaching Farther’ by @nicomuhly commissioned for the College’s 700th anniversary this year. With Organ Scholars @eperfect_organist and @j.costard24, directed by @mrgrahamross. BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong Wednesday 17 June, 3pm Broadcast live from the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge #Clare #Clare700 #ClareChoir #ChoralEvensong #broadcast @choirofclarecollege
  • One foot in Eden still, I stand Music by Nicholas Maw (1935-2009) Words by Edwin Muir (1887-1959) The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, directed by Graham Ross at Choral Evensong in the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge on 7 June 2026 Maria Teresa Maddison, soprano Isabella Theodosius, alto Daniel Livermore, tenor Thomas Alban, bass 🎥 Watch the full performance and service on our YouTube channel, which contains archive of all our LiveStreamed services. www.choirofclarecollege.com @clarecollege @choirofclarecollege @mrgrahamross #choral #evensong #singing #onefootineden
  • 🎶 For the beauty of the earth 🌎 😊 We enjoyed welcoming the children’s Choir of @stlukesandchristchurchchelsea earlier this week in Chapel who joined us for a joint Choral Evensong to perform Healey Willan, Stanford Canticles in B flat, and ‘For the beauty of the earth’ by former @clarecollege Director of Music @johnrutter.composer (Clare 1964). They managed to fit in some time for pizza and punting too! #ChoralEvensong #Clare #juniorchoir #education #MusicatClare
  • 👏 O clap your hands! It’s been wonderful to have had four of the composers featured in our services this week with us in person! 📸 On Compline, we performed Kate Sagovsky (@tunesandspokes)’s ‘Rest,’ at Compline, which sets words by 98-year old Clare English Fellow Terry Moore. We welcomed back former Clare Choir Lay Clerk @dom.w23 Dominic Wallis as soloist, and were delighted to have both Terry’s wife Chris and Kate’s Father-in-law Nicholas Sagovsky (former Dean of Clare and Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey) with us too. 📸 At Thursday’s Choral Evensong we welcomed @laurasheils4 from Dublin as we performed her anthem ‘Regina Caeli’, and @joforbesmusic whose Preces and Responses we have been singing this week. 📸 At tonight’s Choral Evensong we were delighted to be joined again by @mcdowall.cecilia as we performed her ‘O clap your hands Reimagined’ as our anthem. It’s always exciting to perform some of the latest music that’s being added to the canon, and even more special when its composers are with us in person! 🎥 Watch tonight’s service again on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/DAO5G77Wdfo?si=s4eO-RgOwORq5xub @mrgrahamross @choirofclarecollege @clarecollege @chapelofclarecollege #MusicatClare
  • What an incredible weekend we had celebrating 700 years of @clarecollege! More than 150 Clare musicians past and present on one stage together to perform Haydn’s Creation, with soloists @philippa.boyle @simonthetenor @edbllrd, conducted by @mrgrahamross. Instrumentalists, including those from @bbcsymphonyorchestra @londonmozartplayers @brittensinfonia1 @auroraorchestra @orchestraoftheageenlightenment (to name but a few) who all began their journeys at Clare, formed a stellar orchestra to support a 120-strong chorus of @choirofclarecollege alumni and current Choral Scholars. The weekend included the annual Clare Choir Alumni Association Dinner in Great Hall, beginning with a new Grace written for the occasion by Graham Ross. A thrilling highlight of our year-long celebrations. Our eighth century begins! #Clare #Clare700 #ClareMusic #ClareChoirAlumniAssociation #Creation
  • Join us at 8.45am tomorrow (Thursday) as we perform Thomas Weelkes’ ‘All people, clap your hands’ to greet Ascension Day morning, performed (for the first time in 6 years) outdoors in a blissfully-scaffolding-free Old Court! @clarecollege #AscensionDay

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4 Jul

An incredible rehearsal this afternoon for tonight’s concert - Spem in alium at OLEM. The Choir of Clare College, Coro Clairière and Concerto Scirocco sounded outstanding under Graham Ross & Brunella Clerici. A rare chance to hear Striggio, Gabrieli & Tallis @ClareChoir

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