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.
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
Sing Evensong in one of England’s finest cathedrals, parts of which are almost 1000 years old!
Travel to and from the Cathedral is all included in your ticket.
Peterborough Cathedral
One of Cambridge’s finest College Chapels, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
Many of our Festival events will take place in this historic space.
Emmanuel College Chapel
All participants will join together for our Gala Concert of Gabriel Fauré’s beautiful Requiem and other masterpieces.
This concert will take place in the glorious church of St Mary in the quintessential English village of Saffron Walden. We will be joined for this concert by professional soloists and orchestra.
St Mary’s, Saffron Walden
Musical Highlights
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.
‘Cambridge is heaven. I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live.’
- Sophie Hannah, British poet
We are delighted to be partnering with Cambridge Schola - the University’s most ambitious and exciting new choir - for our Festival. Schola members will be on hand throughout the Festival to guide you round the city and to answer questions about their lives as choral scholars in this historic city.
Rachmaninov’s Bogoroditse Dyevo, sung by Cambridge Schola
Photographs of Cambridge
by Nora Rechel
