The Festival will be held at Winchester for 2024

  Wednesday 10th July – Sunday 14th July 2024 

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 Bringing together the renowned choirs of Chichester, Salisbury and   Winchester Cathedrals,
 to offer sacred choral and organ music performed to the very highest   standard.

 We very much look forward to welcoming you to Winchester. 

 The 2024 Festival will include:

 

 Wednesday 10th July

 9.00pm                Festival Fringe, Pilgrims' Hall 

 

 

 Thursday 11th July

 5.30pm                Welcome Service with Winchester Cathedral Choir

 

 7.00pm                Organ Recital ‘ Phantom of the Opera’  by Jonathan Hope

                              (Assistant Director of Music, Gloucester Cathedral)

 

 9.00pm                Festival Fringe, Pilgrims' Hall 

 

 

 Friday 12th July

 10.00am            Festival Mattins                                                                                                              The Choirs of Chichester and Salisbury Cathedrals                                                                   

 11.30am             Recital for Soprano and Piano                                                                                    St Lawrence's Church, The Square    

 

 2.00pm              Workshop: Come and Sing Faure                                                                                St Lawrence's Church, The Square                                                                 

 2.00pm              Talk by Katherine Dienes-Williams                                                                             The United Church, Jewry Street                                                   

 4.30pm               BBC Choral Evensong

 

 5.35pm               Patrons’ Reception  The Deanery Garden

 

 6.30pm               Faure Workshop / Concert 

                              With the girl choristers of Salisbury and Winchester   

                              Cathedrals and the lay clerks of all three Cathedrals

 

 9.00pm               Festival Fringe

 

 

 Saturday 13th July

 11.00am              Festival Eucharist 

 

 12.30pm              Festival lunch   Winchester Cathedral Refectory

 

 2.00pm               Outreach Concert with Winchester Cathedral Junior Choir                                    and local schools    St Michael's Church, Kingsgate Street

 

 4.00pm               Concert given by Winchester Cathedral Chamber Choir                                        St Michael's Church, Kingsgate Street

 

 6.00pm               Festival Concert, 

                              Philip Moore’s 'At the round earth’s imagined corners'                                            (commissioned for the 2011 Southern athedrals Festival)                                      and John Rutter’s Winchester Te Deum  

    

 Sunday 14th July

 11.00 am              Foundation Day Eucharist 

                               Services sung by Winchester Cathedral Choir

 

 3.30pm                Evensong   

                                                                                                                                                                   

 For full details and booking information, click on “Festival Brochure"