Monday 10th - Saturday 15th August 2026
This iconic colour has been worn by University sports teams for over a century!
Cambridge is a place of pilgrimage for all those who love choral music.
The Festival will culminate in a performance, by all participants, of Haydn’s Creation, sung in the glorious medieval Cathedral at St Albans alongside an eminent professional orchestra and soloists.
Stay in an ancient Cambridge College. Dine in a candlelit hall. Sing concerts and services in iconic chapels and churches around the University. Enjoy a sumptuous and exclusive 5-course dinner with our Guest of Honour, Sir John Rutter.
Bring your Whole Choir
The ultimate choir tour! Participating choirs will be accommodated together as far as possible. They will sing, dine and explore together, and have plenty of opportunities to meet and hear the other choirs.
Or join the Festival Choir as an individual
Make friends who will last a lifetime. Participants who sign up as individuals (or small groups) will be grouped together into the Festival Choir, directed by Alexander Trigg and Graham Walker. The Festival Choir will have all the same performing, dining and exploring opportunities as the other choirs.
We are delighted to be partnering with Cambridge Schola for this Festival. Each choir will be assigned a Schola member for the week, who will act as their dedicated guide and answer questions about their lives as choral scholars in this historic city.
The Festival’s musical highlights
Where we will sing Haydn's Creation
St Albans Cathedral
One of Cambridge’s
finest chapels
Emmanuel College Chapel
People from around the world visit the famous College chapels to hear their choirs sing. Our Cambridge 2026 Festival offers you the unique opportunity to sing inside these iconic buildings, and to live - as the Cambridge Choral Scholars do - in the historic Colleges.
The Festival at a glance
‘Cambridge is heaven. I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live.’
- Sophie Hannah, British poet
