With the start of the new academic year, choral life at the University has also burst into renewed life; over on the choral blog, Cantus Firmus, we take a look at our newest ensemble, Minerva Voices, an upper-voice auditioned choir which has begun rehearsing ahead of a busy year; the Cecilian Choir has also sprung into bloom as it starts rehearsals on Handel’s Messiah for a Christmas Baroque concert in December; and the ‘In-Choir Within’ series introducing choral singers at the University continues with an introduction to first-year soprano, Alice Scott.

With the University Chorus also at work in preparing Vaughan Williams’ rarely-performed The First Nowell, you could almost say that the music department is on song… Read all about it on Cantus Firmus here.