The Southern Cathedrals Festival offers a unique opportunity to   enjoy music and to take part in worship within the setting of three   magnificent cathedrals.

 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 

 5.30pm               Patrons’ Reception  The Deanery Garden

 6.30pm               Performance Workshop: Fauré Requiem

7.45pm                 Concert Performance: Fauré Requiem with the girl choristers of Salisbury   

                              and Wincheser 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

 4.00pm               Concert given by Winchester Cathedral Chamber Choir

 6.00pm               Festival Concert, Philip Moore’s At the round earth’s imagined corners

                              (commissioned for the 2011 Southern Cathedrals Festival)                                                                                  and John Rutter’s Winchester Te Deum  

    

 Sunday 14th July

 10.00                    Foundation Day Eucharist       Services sung by Winchester Cathedral Choir

 3.30pm                Evensong    

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                   

 

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