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About this event
After a sell-out debut performance at Marchmont in 2024, we are delighted to welcome St Salvator’s Chapel Choir back to Marchmont on 29th June to sing in Marchmont's majestic oak-panelled Music Room, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.
St. Salvator’s Chapel Choir is the flagship choir of the University of St Andrews. A mixed-voice ensemble of around twenty-five students, the choir’s history extends back to the founding of the University in the early fifteenth century, when students were obliged to sing in the University’s chapel. These choristers were referred to as the ‘Choristi Sanctiandree’.
The concert will be the first in our four-part Music at Marchmont 2025 series, led by Marchmont’s Musical Director Simon Leach.
Doors will open at 3:30 pm for pre-concert tea and coffee, and home baked goods, which are included in the ticket price. The concert will start at 4:15 pm and finish at 5:30 pm, without an interval.
St Salvator's performing at Marchmont in 2024
Programme
The full programme is to be confirmed, but will include a mixture of fine sacred and secular unaccompanied choral music from the Renaissance to the present day such as Brahms’ Motets, Howells’ Requiem, and a selection of Scottish folk-songs.
About the Choir
The choir performs a broad repertoire spanning the six centuries of the University’s history, under the direction of Claire Innes-Hopkins. In addition to three sung services each week and extensive ceremonial duties, the choir enjoys a busy schedule of concerts, international tours and broadcasts on radio and tv, as well as appearances at international festivals including the Thüringer Bachwochen (Germany), Haarlem Koorbiennale and Orgelfestival Holland (The Netherlands) from where they were broadcast. In 2024, the choir was heard in concert with the outstanding Luxembourg period instrument group, L’Ensemble de la Chapelle du Saint-Marc, in music by Bach, Vivaldi and Durante in Metz and Luxembourg, directed by Prof Vincent Bernhardt. In April the choir performed in Denmark at venues including Roskilde Cathedral.
Recordings on the University’s own internationally distributed CD label have included Salvator Mundi charting 100 years of English church music after Purcell, Bach and the Stile Antico, charting the evolution of Credo from Bach’s Mass in B minor via works known to, and performed by, Bach during its composition and Annunciations featuring music by James MacMillan and six new works commissioned for the choir as part of the University’s TheoArtistry project.
Good to know
No dogs are permitted other than registered guide dogs.
We will happily offer a refund or credit for another date provided 14 days’ notice is given.
Should we cancel the event for any reason a full refund will be given.