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The Chapel Choir is one of the largest ensembles to rehearse and perform regularly throughout the year. It currently numbers more than 60 boys and provides music for at least one service each Sunday during term time as well as performing at special services and concerts.

All new boys are voice-tested upon entering Harrow, and the treble line mainly comprises new Shell boys. The Alto, Tenor and Bass lines feature the best singers in the School. When a boy’s voice ‘breaks’ he might move to the Harmony Choir until he is ready to return to the ‘back rows’ of the Chapel Choir. 

Director of Music, David Woodcock, directs the Choir.

Recent repertoire

  • FaureRequiem
  • Berkeley - Thou hast made me
  • Durufle - Missa cum Jubilo
  • Howells - Collegium Regale Holy Communion Setting
  • Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine
  • Haydn - Insanae et Vanae Curae
  • Dyson - Evening Canticles in D
  • Bach - O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens lich
  • JacksonThe Magi *
  • Walton - The Twelve
  • Britten - Hymn to St Cecilia

 

  • Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb
  • Duruflé - Requiem
  • Bach - Cantata No. 48
  • Poulenc - Lenten Motets
  • Adelman - 3 Spirituals
  • Mozart - Requiem
  • Handel - Coronation Anthems
  • Purcell - Hear my Prayer
  • Purcell - Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes

* A new composition commissioned by Harrow School