Friday 2nd March

Truro Cathedral Spring Concert

Truro Cathedral Choir with City of Truro Male Voice Choir

Truro Cathedral Choir once again join forces with the City of Truro Male Choir for a concert that includes Truro Cathedral Choir performing music by living composers, including the devastating work Identity by James MacMillan, Church Music by Julian Philips, O magnum mysterium by Morten Lauridsen and works by Philip Stopford. The City of Truro Male Choir will sing a varied programme, from classical favourites like Puccini’s Nessun Dorma and Caccini’s Ave Maria to lighter favourites like You’ll never walk alone and Can you feel the love tonight.

Truro Cathedral Choir
Truro Cathedral Choir consists of eighteen boy choristers and twelve gentlemen sings at six services each week during term time as well as at the major services around Christmas and Easter. They also undertake regular concerts, broadcasts, webcasts, foreign tours and CD recordings. In recent years the choir has performed live on BBC1 as well as making recordings for BBC1’s Songs of Praise programme and a BBC2 documentary The Truth about Carols shown on Christmas Day for the past three years. There are regular live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and, in 2011, it became the first British cathedral choir to webcast a service. On Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs programme, Howard Goodall chose the choir’s recording of music by French composer Maurice Duruflé as his favourite disc.

The choir has recorded a number of CDs which have been received enthusiastically by critics across the UK and further afield. One of classical music’s most prestigious journals described Truro Cathedral Choir as “one of the best around” in its review of a recording of music by French composer Louis Vierne.

City of Truro Male Choir
Although we only became the City of Truro Male Choir in 2003, we can trace our singing forefathers back to two local village choirs formed in the 1940’s. These were Chacewater and District Male Voice Choir, and Carnon Vale Male Choir, which combined in 1991 to form the Chacewater Carnon Vale Male Choir. The new ‘City of Truro’ name was adopted when the choir moved to improved practice facilities at Truro School. The choir focus is on its tone combined with an entertaining repertoire including the traditional with dramatic dynamics and modern works. Our current membership is over seventy with our youngest member being a teenager and our oldest eighty nine, and includes a ‘fathers & son ‘as members. We were privileged last year, to be asked to sing at the Lord Lieutenants farewell event at the Eden Project. This was in fact a ‘baptism of fire’ for our new Musical Director who had only joined us a few weeks before. Everything went well and we are now enjoying new directions under her tutelage. We are planning to go on a tour in Spain in 2012 and full details of the choir’s activities are to be found on the choir’s website www.cityoftruromalechoir.co.uk

Tickets:

£12 (Unreserved)
Students £6
Under 16s FREE (Free tickets must be booked in advance - please call box office on 01872 262466 to book)