Hadley Choir

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In 2025, a group of former singers from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge got together and decided to set up a new choir to perform great choral music to the highest standard. We decided to name the choir 'Hadley Choir' after Patrick Hadley, a wonderful composer and former Precentor (Director of Music) at the College.

After asking our friends and colleagues if they would be interested in joining the venture, we were amazed by the huge amount of interest and enthusiasm we received, and so the choir was born.

We'll be performing at St Mary Brookfield in North London on Saturday 21 February, singing a programme of great English choral music. Please do join us then!

I will be conducting the choir, with the excellent Owen Saldanha on the organ.

Tickets available here.

Full programme

Patrick Hadley – My Beloved Spake

Charles Wood – Expectans expectavi

Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Cloud Capp’d Towers

John Ireland – Greater Love Hath No Man

Charles Wood – Hail, Gladdening Light

Edward Elgar – O Hearken Thou

Robert Lucas Pearsall – Who Shall Win My Lady Fair?

Hubert Parry – I Was Glad

— Interval —

Herbert Howells – Te Deum (Collegium Regale)

Charles Villiers Stanford – Three Latin Motets

William Henry Harris – Bring Us, O Lord God

Edward Elgar – Ave verum corpus

Robert Lucas Pearsall – Lay a Garland

Charles Villiers Stanford – For Lo, I Raise Up