The Choir will sing Evensong at Westminster Abbey for the week. Evensong is at 5pm during weekdays. On Tuesday the Chamber Chamber choir are singing the service.

Monday 11th July
5:00 pm Evensong in the Quire
Attended by HE The High Commissioner for the Bahamas.

Abbey Gate College Chapel Choir, Chester
Introit: Tallis – If ye love me
Responses: Reading
Canticles: Wood in F
Anthem: Parry – My soul, there is a country

Tuesday 12th July
5:00 pm Evensong in the Quire
Attended by the Honorary Consul for Kiribati

Abbey Gate College Chamber Choir, Chester
Introit: Tallis – If ye love me
Responses: Reading
Canticles: Gibbons Short Service
Anthem: attr Redford – Rejoice in the Lord alway

Wednesday 13th July

5:00 pm Evensong in the Quire

Introit: Tallis – If ye love me
Responses: Reading
Canticles: Howells Collegium Regale
Anthem: Wesley – Blessed be the God and Father

Thursday 14th July
5:00 pm Evensong in the Quire

Introit: Tallis – If ye love me
Responses: Reading
Canticles: Stanford in G
Anthem: Bruckner – Christus factus est

Friday 15th July
5:00 pm Evensong in the Quire
with Installation of Auditor as a Member of College

Introit: Tallis – If ye love me
Responses: Reading
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Anthem: Palestrina – Sicut cervus

Live On Tour!

The recordings are taken from the recent tours to Italy and Belgium. To listen to two of the tracks please go to the listen page and if you like what you hear please contact Stewart Smith.

The CDs are now available to buy at the price of £8 for one or £15 for two. Call Stewart Smith on 01244 322077 to purchase. For a full track listing and a preview of some of the tracks, please go to the Buy a CD page and click on the links.

Abbey Gate College Chapel Choir was formed in 1983 by its current Director of Music, Stewart Smith. It began as a Chamber Choir of 15 members which has now expanded to a membership of over 60.

As Chester Cathedral has no choir school Abbey Gate College is amongst a group of schools fortunate to benefit from educating some of the boy and girl choristers with the obvious advantages they have in choral singing which is a great asset to the Chapel Choir. In addition to two annual school services at Christmas and Passiontide, held in Chester Cathedral, the Choir gives regular concerts and sings for services in the local area as well as further afield.

The Choir recorded its first CD in March 1997 in Chester Cathedral, which includes the Fauré Requiem, Zadok the Priest and the Hallelujah Chorus. The second CD ‘Bright the Vision’ was recorded in 1999. In celebration of Abbey Gate College’s 25th Anniversary a third CD was recorded in Chester Cathedral on March 6th and 7th 2003. A CD has been made from live performances made during the Choir’s 2006 tour of the Czech Republic and in October 2009 the choir recorded a CD of ‘Christmas favourites’.

The Choir has toured Holland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, France, the Czech Republic and the USA on two occasions. Each year the Choir sings Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral, London and will return there on April 12th 2010. The Choir has sung in most major English Cathedrals on summer tours over the past 25 years. In October 2006 the Choir sang Evensong at St George’s Chapel Windsor. In the summer of 2008 the choir sang the daily evensongs for a week in Ely Cathedral. The most recent tour was undertaken in July 2009 to Northern Italy and Venice and included a performance in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice.

In the summer of 2010 the Choir will be performing in Brussells, Brugges, Ghent and at the Menin Gate at Ypres.