Tours and Concerts
‘Their commitment, warmth of tone, range of colour, impeccable enunciation and responsiveness to every verbal inflection was an object–lesson for any choir.’ — Pretoria News
Caius College Choir travels extensively abroad performing at a variety of venues, ranging from major concert halls (Athens, San Francisco, Pretoria, Sofia) to universities (Yale, Bologna, Zürich, Johannesburg), major churches and Cathedrals (Florence, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Chicago, Rome, Dublin, New York), and also takes part in international choral music festivals.
Some foreign trips have been arranged with professional groups, including appearances in Opera Northern Ireland’s production of Mozart’s Idomeneo, and performances of Handel’s oratorio Solomon with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco, and concerts with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, under the batons of Kwamé Ryan and Jane Glover.
The choir also gives a number of concerts in the UK each year, making appearances in prestigious festivals such as the Spitalfields Festival in London and the Aldeburgh Festival; as well as performing in churches, cathedrals and halls around the country. The choir often collaborates with other professional groups, and has performed with the Cambridge Baroque Camerata, the Aurora Orchestra, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
‘Will we ever dare again to propose a performance of Handel’s Messiah in Bordeaux after hearing what the English can do? In mastering the sparkling virtuosic passages, the thirty students of the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, offer as wide an array of nuances as the thousand choristers of Sir Thomas Beecham’ — Sud-Ouest
