Choir & Organ

Choir & Organ shines a global spotlight on two distinctive fields of creativity, celebrating inventiveness and excellence in all their forms. We aim to inspire our readers through giving a platform to conductors, organists, composers, and choirs of every kind; and showcasing the imaginative craft of pipe organ building across the centuries, critiquing new organs and tackling ethics in restoring historic instruments.

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Choir & Organ

WILLIAM FIELDING WINS ARD ORGAN COMPETITION

Cathedral Music Trust awards grants to strengthen cathedral music

TINGSHUO YANG WINS 2026 NORTHERN IRELAND INTERNATIONAL ORGAN COMPETITION

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EQUITY CALLS FOR FAIRER TREATMENT OF PROFESSIONAL CHURCH SINGERS

The Sixteen launches new school resources

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PREMIERE SPOTLIGHT

Ruth Gipps • Ruth Gipps was a gifted composer with a complex and divisive character. Leah Broad explores how her life and beliefs shaped her choral music

Sound advice • As 2026 marks 25 years of Tenebrae, Stephen Pritchard speaks with Artistic Director and founder Nigel Short about its aims, legacy and attitude to commissioning

The sound of resilience • The two world wars brought unprecedented challenges to Britain’s choral tradition. Yet from carols across the trenches to candlelit services in freezing chapels, singing offered comfort and continuity to a nation at war, as Georgia Keeley discovers

NEXT ISSUE • SPRING 2027

Daniel Hyde • Director of Music at the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

Distinguished glory • Tom Bell offers an anecdotal appreciation of the musically non-conformist W T Best

Britten at Christmas • As December marks 50 years since Benjamin Britten’s death, Philip Reed looks at the composer’s contribution to Christmas choral music

The Epiphany enigma • In New York City, Chris Bragg visits the Anglican Church of the Epiphany and puts into context its new instrument from the Utah organ builder Bigelow & Co

Faith in the future • As the National Youth Choir reaches its 100th new commission, Emily Arlidge meets the young singers and composers building a choral culture around belonging, collaboration and new voices

Anima Christi • Matthew Power talks to composer Amy Summers about scoring for film, and her new unaccompanied choral piece

Restoration and revolution • Martin Schmeding considers the contributions of German Romantic composers Mendelssohn, Reubke and Reger to the development of the organ sonata

Tonal coherence • The new Harrison & Harrison organ at St John’s College, Cambridge is designed around vintage Willis pipework. Nicholas Prozzillo explores how it creatively engages with that legacy

From Paris to Perth • William Yeoman speaks to Joseph Nolan to find out how a French musical education, a succession of great organs and an instinct for architecture shaped one of today’s leading interpreters of Widor and Alkan

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