Music - Welcome

Singing has been part of our daily worship at Peterborough Cathedral for many hundreds of years. The glorious sounds of the Hill organ and Cathedral Choir flood the building each day at Choral Evensong and at the main services on Sundays.  If you would like to attend a choral service and hear the Cathedral Choir, please see the Service, Music Lists & Weekly Sheets for full details of the music planned for the next few weeks.  If you have any general enquiries about music at the Cathedral, please contact us.

The current choral foundation at Peterborough consists of twenty boy choristers, twenty junior girl choristers, sixteen senior girl choristers and six lay clerks, together with four assistant lay clerks and two supernumerary singers who attend at weekends. The boy and girl choristers sing at different services in the week together with the lay clerks, and occasionally join forces for the larger services of the year.  Please see the Choral Rota for details.

In addition to its main role, the Choir regularly gives concerts and has undertaken a number of recordings. In recent years it has toured within the UK, Europe and the USA.  It has also made television and radio broadcasts. Each year the Music Department leads choirs from across the Diocese in a Diocesan Choral Festival.   It also leads other musical events, including outreach work, the Organ Festival and our Christmas Concert.

Whilst music is imperative to the continued mission of the Cathedral, musical development and choristership is financially costly, so in 1996 The Hastings Music Endowment Fund was set up to secure the financial future of the Music Foundation, and has raised almost £2 million to date.

To develop the music at Peterborough  and achieve our Vision for the Future, we are currently finalising plans to provide new facilities for choir rehearsal and musical outreach work under the recently launched Peterborough 900 Campaign. This development, though, will require funding, as does the running of our Cathedral Choir. If you would like to help, you may wish to make a donation to The Hastings Music Endowment Fund.