Choral Volunteer (Tenor)
The Choir Of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Selwyn College Chapel Choir has led worship in the College Chapel since its foundation in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The mixed choir, consists of up to twenty-eight singers, Choral Exhibitioners and volunteers who come from other colleges. The choir is conducted by the Sarah MacDonald .During term, the choir sings three services per week in the College Chapel, as well as concerts and services throughout the UK, recently in venues including Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, and St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh. Its repertoire ranges from the 10th to the 21st century. They have broadcast services for BBC Radio, have sung live on television, and every year undertake an international tour (in the recent past destinations have included Israel and Palestine, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and much of mainland Europe). The choir has made a number of recordings, for labels including Priory, Herald, URM, Kevin Mayhew, and Regent Records, with whom they work most frequently. They have made something of a niche for themselves recording single-composer discs, and have released several recently, including discs of works by Colin Mawby, Paul Spicer, Paul Edwards, Gary Higginson, Alan Bullard, and Phillip Cooke (currently in production). Planned for the future are recordings of works by John Hosking, and another Alan Bullard disc. Also in production is a disc for Regent Records called "The Eternal Ecstasy" featuring music by Paul Mealor, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, John Tavener, and James MacMillan, and other proponents of the so-called Choral Ecstatic Style. The title track, a setting of words from the Ecstasy of St Theresa, was commissioned specially for the disc from Phillip Cooke.
