This year's festival will be held at Salisbury for 2025
Wednesday 16th July – Saturday 19th July 2025
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 Salisbury.
The 2025 Festival will include:
Wednesday 16th July
13:00 - Choral Workshop
Sir John Rutter (Nave/Crossing)
16:30 - Choral Evensong
Salisbury Cathedral Girl Choristers (Quire)
19:00 - Come and Sing Choral Concert
Sir John Rutter and Salisbury Cathedral Choir, Youth Choir, Chamber Choir and Junior Choir (Nave/Crossing)
21:00 - Compline
Lay Vicars of Salisbury Cathedral (North Transept)
Thursday 17th July
10:00 - Sung Mattins
Chichester Cathedral Choir (Quire)
11:30 - Piano Trio Concert
Music by Ravel and Mendelssohn (North Transept)
David Halls (Piano), Bryony Moody (Cello) and Daphne Moody (Violin)
16:30 - Choral Evensong (BBC Recorded)
Girl Choristers of Salisbury and Winchester, Chichester Cathedral Choir and all Lay Vicars (Quire)
17:30 - Patrons' Reception
(Cloisters)
18:30 - Organ Concert
John Challenger with Large Screen (Nave/Quire)
21:00 - Late Night Concert
Lay Vicars of Salisbury Cathedral (North Transept)
Friday 18th July
10:00 - Sung Mattins
Boys and Lay Clerks of Winchester Cathedral (Quire)
11:30 - Talk "In Quires and Places where we sing"
Stephen Abbott (North Transept)
16:30 - Choral Evensong
Lay Vicars of Salisbury Cathedral (Quire)
18:30 - Concert
Music by Gibbons and Palestrina (West End)
Senior Choristers and Lay Vicars of the Three Cathedrals with Rose Consort of Viols
21:00 - Late Night Piano Duets
David Halls and Alistair Watson (North Transept)
Saturday 19th July
10:30 - Festival Eucharist
Boy Choristers of Salisbury and Winchester, Chichester Cathedral Choir and all Lay Vicars
(Nave and Quire, Livestreamed)
Preacher – The Rev Lucy Winkett
President – The Bishop of Salisbury, The Rt Rev Stephen Lake
12:15 - Festival Lunch
(Sarum College)
14:30 - Concert
Elizabeth Kenny – Lute (St Thomas’s Church)
18:30 - Concert
Mozart Vespers and Haydn Nelson Mass (Nave)
The Combined Choristers and Lay Vicars of the Three Cathedrals with The Hanover Band