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Eight new choristers were installed during evensong on Sunday, 11th January. The service was followed by a reception and splendid celebratory cake (made by Madeleine Shaw, chorister mother and brother of former chorister Ben Shaw, whom ECOCA members from the early 1980s will remember).
Arabella, Arthur, Heidi, Katica, Laurence, Lucia, Rhian and Rupert were duly welcomed "as Choristers of this Cathedral Church".
Music:
Responses: Smith
Psalms 46 and 47
Mag and Nunc: St Paul's Service - Herbert Howells
Anthem: When Jesus, our Lord - Felix Medelssohn
Voluntary: Carillon-Sortie - Henri Mulet
Children in years 2-5 who love music and singing are warmly encouraged to audition to become a chorister in the Cathedral Choir.
As former choristers know so well, being a chorister gives you not only wonderful experiences and treasured memories, but also many life-long transferable skills.
Please encourage potential applicants, or via their parents/guardians, to come to a voice trial.
The Exeter Old Choristers' Association supports a number of choristers financially through bursaries, so please encourage applicants regardless of their situation, as the Association may be able to help.
Voice Trials will take place at Exeter Cathedral on:
More information and booking a place at a voice trial
A new addition to this website is the memoirs of Denis Vercoe, who was a chorister at Exeter between about 1925 and 1928. His time at Exeter included singing on the first LP recording the choir ever made. He was one of the choristers shown in the photo below, carrying the bride's train at the wedding of the Dean's daughter in 1928. His chorister-world was very different from today!
The current choir's Exeter Cathedral Choir Association has an essential aim of raising money for enrichment activities for the choristers and to help fund choir tours. You can support this at no cost to you, by simply doing your online shopping using 'Easyfunding'
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/exetercathedralchoirassoc/
Over £1,500 has been raised so far this way!