Chapel Choir Selwyn College, Cambridge
The Chapel Choir consists of Choral Scholars, most of whom are undergraduates or graduates at Selwyn and Newnham Colleges, with a few volunteers from other colleges. During term, the choir sings three services per week in the College Chapel, as well as concerts and services throughout the UK, recently in venues including Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh and Southwark Cathedral. Their repertoire ranges from the 10th to the 21st century. They have broadcast services for BBC Radio, have sung live on television, and every year undertake an international tour. Recent guest conductors have included Sir David Lumsden, Christopher Robinson, Judith Clurman, Grayston Ives, Andrew Carwood, Nicholas Cleobury and Stephen Layton.
In its six year relationship with JAM, the Selwyn choir has premiered major new works by some of the UK's most significant composers, including The Far Theatricals of Day by Jonathan Dove, Songs of the Garden by John McCabe and The Fifth Continent by Paul Patterson.
The choir has made a number of recordings, including Volume XIV of Priory's Complete New English Hymnal, 'One day in thy courts', a collection of settings of psalm texts, also on the Priory label, and Howells' Evening Canticles on the Herald label.