Gonville & Caius College

Caius College Choir is one of the UK’s leading collegiate choirs. The twenty-three singers and two organ scholars, under the direction of Geoffrey Webber, perform a wide range of sacred and secular choral music ranging from the fourteenth century to the present day. Alongside familiar repertoire from the Anglican choral tradition and beyond, the choir performs much new music and has developed a niche for reviving neglected repertoires.

Gonville and Caius College Chapel is probably the oldest purpose-built College Chapel in Cambridge still in use. The College’s musical tradition began at the end of the nineteenth century with a traditional male choir with boy trebles, founded by Charles Wood, and later became an exclusively undergraduate male choir under Wood’s successor Patrick Hadley. Hadley was succeeded by Peter Tranchell, under whose direction the choir became a mixed undergraduate choir in 1979. The current choir is directed by Geoffrey Webber (who is also the Director of Studies in Music).

‘The quality of the performances was impeccable. Caius choir make a rounded and polished sound ... and the quality of ensemble and control was impressive.’ - Varsity

  Top