Newcastle Cathedral Choir

05/07/2026

Today we said goodbye to our wonderful Head Choristers, Jesdina and Oriana, as they leave the Cathedral Choir to start new adventures at Oxford University and as Organ Scholar at Chelmsford Cathedral 🎶

Good luck to these two excellent young musicians, and thank you for everything! ❤️

03/07/2026

Here are our wonderful choristers preparing for a fabulous weekend ahead, beginning with hosting this year’s Hadrian’s Choirs Festival!

Join us tomorrow at 6PM for a wonderful choral concert along with our friends from .cathedral and 🎶

Tickets available from: https://www.ticketsource.com/newcastle-cathedral/hadrian-s-choirs-festival-2026-newcastle-cathedral-carlisle-cathedral-hexham-abbey/e-kkmlev

04/04/2026

We hope you can join us for our Easter celebrations this year at Newcastle Cathedral!

Tonight (Holy Saturday):
Easter Vigil at 7:30 PM

Easter Sunday:
Festal Eucharist at 10 AM
Festal Choral Evensong at the earlier time of 3PM

For an extra Easter treat preceding tomorrow afternoon’s service, please join us at 2:30 PM for a special programme of organ music played by all three of the Cathedral’s exceptional organists! We are very lucky to have these talented musicians at Newcastle Cathedral, and this showcase is not to be missed.

Tomorrow at 2:30 PM, Ian Roberts (Director of Music), Kris Thomsett (Assistant Director of Music) and James Watson (Organ Scholar) present:

Bach Sinfonia from BWV 29
Bach Adagio from Easter Oratorio
Willan Prelude on Vulpius
Scheidemann Dic nobis Maria
Rutter Variations on an Easter Theme

02/04/2026

Yesterday we had the pleasure of broadcasting live Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3!

For Spy Wednesday of Holy Week, our service featured poignant works by Gesualdo, Lotti, Ešenvalds, Dvořák and Tomkins, and finished with a stunning Dupré organ voluntary played by Assistant Director of Music Kris Thomsett.

Congratulations to Director of Music Ian Roberts and the Cathedral Choir on a wonderful broadcast!

If you didn’t catch it, the service will be available on BBC Sounds for the next month:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002t01m

30/03/2026

Last week we were delighted to invite 800 children from our 13 Singing Programme partner schools to Newcastle Cathedral for two enormous Singing Celebrations! Perhaps some of our future Choristers are among them?

You can hear our current Choristers and Cathedral Choir singing the services at Newcastle Cathedral this Holy Week, and broadcasting Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3 at 3PM.

01/03/2026

📢📋 Applications are now open for Junior Lay Clerks (Tenor, Alto, Bass) for the academic year 2026/27. ⬇️

09/01/2026