Choral Eucharist with Choir from the University of St Andrews

We are delighted to be welcoming St Salvator's Chapel Choir, the flagship choir of the University of St Andrews (UK), to sing a Choral Eucharist for our Sunday morning service on 6th April, as part of their tour to Denmark.
Music at the service will include:

• Missa Brevis - Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
• Hear My Prayer, O Lord - Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

St Salvator's Chapel Choir is a mixed-voice ensemble of around 25 students, with a history extending back to the founding of the University in the early fifteenth century.

Under the direction of Claire Innes-Hopkins, the choir performs a broad repertoire spanning the six centuries of the University’s history. In addition to three sung services each week and extensive ceremonial duties, the choir enjoys a busy schedule of concerts, international tours and broadcasts on radio and TV, as well as appearances at international festivals including the Thüringer Bachwochen (Germany), Haarlem Koorbiennale and Orgelfestival Holland (The Netherlands) from where they were broadcast on Dutch national radio. Other tours have featured performances at Washington National Cathedral and Princeton University (USA) and with renowned baritone Peter Harvey in Sweden. In 2019 and 2023 the choir toured throughout France including concerts in Burgundy, Champagne, Bourges Cathedral, the Alsace, Metz, Marseille and the Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence. In 2024, the choir was heard in concert with the outstanding Luxembourg period instrument group, L’Ensemble de la Chapelle du Saint-Marc, in music by Bach, Vivaldi and Durante in Metz and Luxembourg, directed by Prof Vincent Bernhardt.

Recordings on the University’s own internationally distributed CD label have included 'Salvator Mundi' charting 100 years of English church music after Purcell, 'Bach and the Stile Antico', charting the evolution of the Credo from Bach’s Mass in B minor via works known to, and performed by, Bach during its composition and 'Annunciations' featuring music by James MacMillan and six new works commissioned for the choir as part of the University’s TheoArtistry project. The choir also made the first recording under studio conditions of Sigismund von Neukomm’s Requiem in C minor, written for the Congress of Vienna in 1815. This was a collaboration with the Wallace Collection who performed on historic brass instruments. The choir’s most recent CD for Christmas, 'The Tyger and the Lamb', was released in October, 2022.

For more information, please visit https://stsalvatorschapelchoir.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/