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We were delighted to see a packed Chapel for our Advent Carol Service last night. Thank you to Hugh Warwick for these photos of one of the most atmospheric events of the year.

'Another triumph for the Magdalen musicians'. Editor's Choice in Gramophone, and a very generous review - what a lovely way to welcome in the new year!

We are looking to appoint up to 3 stipendiary clerks for the academic year 2025-2026. For more details go to magd.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies/

Tomorrow, the Consort of Voices will sing Arnold Bax’s monumental ‘Mater ora filium’, one of the most exciting and challenging choral works of the 20th century, as the anthem at Evensong at 6pm. We’re really looking forward to tackling it!

Tomorrow, at Evensong at 6pm, the Choir will give the first performance of a new work for Candlemas by Nico Muhly.  ’The Quiet Stars’ takes a text by Evelyn Underhill, written in 1915. The Choir has really enjoyed getting to know this beautiful new work.  Do join us to hear it!

Singing Arnold Bax's 'Mater ora filium' was a memorable experience for the Consort of Voices at Evensong on Saturday. Here it is, for those who were unable to be with us in person. youtube.com/watch?v=yZ4b3G…

This year Candlemas was made extra special by the first performance of Nico Muhly's beautiful anthem 'The Quiet Stars' to a text by Evelyn Underhill. You can listen to the Choir singing the piece during Evensong on Sunday at youtu.be/cX1reqiRFnQ (Photos Hugh Warwick)

Tomorrow, the Consort of Voices will sing Evensong at 6pm with Instruments of Time and Truth, featuring music by Durante and Monteverdi. We're excited to share this wonderful music and hope to see you there.

We are delighted to welcome back Pimlico Musical Foundation for evensong at 6pm on Saturday for music by Brewer, Vaughan Williams, and Kristina Arakelyan. The weekend services continue on Sunday with Eucharist at 11am and Evensong at 6pm, both sung by the academical clerks.

It was an enormous honour for the Consort of Voices to sing at the Installation of Baron Hague of Richmond (Magdalen 1979) as the 160th Chancellor of the University today.

The Consort of Voices will sing Evensong tonight, during the Choristers’ half-term break.  The anthem will be Willam Harris’s beautiful setting of Edmund Spenser’s text, 'Faire is the Heaven’.

Thank you to @HughWarwick for capturing our collaboration with @PimlicoMusicalFoundation last Saturday.  It’s always a joy to work with such talented young singers.  We certainly raised the roof in Vaughan Williams’s anthem ‘Let all the world in every corner sing’!

Today the College celebrates the life of Dr Bojan Bujic, Fellow and Tutor in Music, in a memorial service at which the College Choir will sing music by Byrd, Croce, Grayston Ives (with whom Bojan worked for many years), and Egon Wellesz (who mentored Bojan and on whom he wrote).

On Friday at 6pm the College Choir will be singing a Festal Choral Evensong for the Eve of St David's day with music by Parry, Mathias and Hogan.

Thank you to Hugh Warwick for capturing the lovely tradition of Claymond's Dole on Tuesday. This benefaction has been awarded to all the members of the Foundation - the President, Fellows, Scholars, Demys, Academical Clerks and Choristers - annually since the 16th century.

Thank you to Hugh Warwick for these photos of last Friday's memorable performance of Bach's St John Passion in the Chapel. It was such a privilege to welcome back a number of familiar faces as soloists, including one who happened to be in the audience and bravely stepped in!

The choristers are very excited that it’s just one month until May Morning, when the Informator Choristarum will be abseiling off the tower in a tradition dating back over 500 years. Sir John Stainer was, allegedly, the fastest Informator, reaching the ground in nine seconds.

The Informator is looking forward to May Morning!

One of the highlights of the year for the choir is going up the tower on May Morning and singing to the crowds below. This year it was estimated that 16,000 people attended the event! Photos by Hugh Warwick

We’re thrilled to have made it into Gramophone’s top 25 classical albums of the year (so far)! gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…