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5th July 2026

Summer Vacation

12:00am

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

7th July 2026

Polychoral concert with Coro Clairière

8:00pm

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

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

LAC Laguna Arte e Cultura, Lugano, Switzerland

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  • 16th century surround sound… in 40 parts! The closing bars of the Credo of Alessandro Striggio’s mighty Missa Ecco si beato giorno from 1565, performed in the Chiesa di San Fidele, Milan, 6 July 2026 @choirofclarecollege @coro_clairiere @concerto_scirocco @brunellaclerici @mrgrahamross
  • Switzerland / Italy Tour Blog Day 1 Blog 2: HEATHROW TO ZÜRICH GROUP: The day began much later than had been previously planned (much to the chagrin of the 6am Basel group), with a planned leisurely 11.15 departure extended by a further 45 mins by the bus driver mistaking ‘from’ and ‘to’. The journey was not without pitfalls, including a well-needed tour around all Heathrow terminals, much to Graham “NO IT’S TERMINAL FIVE” Ross’ & Cheryl “unskippable cut scene” Jeyakumar’s delight. Our traverse of the airport ran relatively smoothly, despite Thomas “smuggler” Alban’s game of Monopoly Deal deemed a suspicious object. Graham “I don’t know what to do with myself” Ross suffered through a whole hour in the airport with the choir itself, rather than in the BA lounge… the less said about this the better. On the flight, Finn “delusional” Kjaergaard expressed a firm belief that the flight attendant was flirting with him, and Sophia “living it up” Foster enjoyed an airborne Aperol Spritz. After a stressful ten minutes at baggage claim in which Eoin “General” Jenkins attempted to rally the group towards the exit while people kept disappearing, we just made our connection to Zürich HB. Lugging our suitcases, we were led up & then almost immediately down the stairs of the doubledecker train (much to the amusement of the other passengers), and Huatai “Gen Alpha” Cui proved that 6/7 jokes are truly universal. Zürich’s central station ‘rapido’ pretzel store was put to the test as half of Clare choir descended upon it for snacks with 10 mins to go. Finally en route, Graham “Holiday Mode” Ross opened up his travel sized bottle of wine, Harry “Exams are over” Appleby Taylor brought out the beers, and these accompanied Finn “angling for future Senior choral scholar” Kjaergaard’s canticle quiz as we sped through the Swiss mountains under a glorious sunset. We reached our Hostel at 11pm and were greeted by Daniel “Saint” Livermore with packed dinners that we ate in curfew mandated silence while whisper arguing whether to stay up to watch the England match at 3am. After getting used to the triple bunks we headed to bed excited for Milan in the morning! Molly and Martha (altos)
  • Switzerland / Italy Tour Blog Day 1: following a sellout concert at @olemcambridge for @cambridgesummermusic, a flight cancellation at 12 hours’ notice resulted in an unexpected tale of two journeys, and hence two blogs…: Blog 1: GATWICK TO BASEL GROUP By the time the first half of Clare Choir had set off at 6:15am, their flight path had changed more times than the number of parts in Striggio’s “once in a lifetime (3 times in one week)” mass. In a heroic effort to ensure the continent did not miss out on Striggio’s masterpiece, Daniel “I slept in the office” Livermore had arranged a fleet of minibuses, seconded Graham “choir administrator in training” Ross to head up the other group, and travelled to Izzy “sleeping beauty” Theodosius’s house to awake her at 1:30am to inform her directly of the change in plan. But all was a success! The two minibuses were on the way to Gatwick and had just pulled onto the A14 when the familiar call of “I’ve forgotten my passport” was raised. After trekking to our beloved choir administrator’s house to retrieve his passport, the better half of Clare choir arrived at Gatwick ready for our flight to Basel! Apart from the mysterious disappearance of a pair of flip flops, the flight passed without issue and we travelled to Basel SBB to purchase our ruinously expensive Swiss train tickets on Maya “Switzerland’s No1 fan” Stubbing’s favourite app. We then enjoyed a gorgeous train journey through the Swiss alps which unsurprisingly many choir members slept through with Kathryn “I only speak French well when I’m drunk” Gallagher and Patrick “trilingual” Tweedie brushing up on their language skills. After a 12 hour travel day, we arrived in Lugano to be greeted by our very enthusiastic and friendly hostel hosts and proceeded to a restaurant overlooking the lake to have a delicious meal to round off an exciting, mainly train-based, first day. Most of all we really missed our two favourite choir members Zoe and Adam ❤️ Jess (Can sop) and Sophie (Can alto)
  • 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

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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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