Through its acclaimed performances in services, concerts, broadcasts and recordings, Truro Cathedral Choir has been a significant ambassador for the arts in Cornwall, nationally and internationally.

In recent years the Choir has performed live on BBC1 as well as making recordings for BBC1’s Songs of Praise programme and a BBC2 documentary The Truth about Carols shown on Christmas Day. On Radio 4’s Dessert Island Discs programme, Howard Goodall chose the Choir’s recording of music by French composer Maurice Duruflé as his favourite disc. In March the Choir broadcast a service of Choral Evensong live on BBC Radio 3 and it has another one scheduled for the next academic year.

The Choir has recorded a number of CDs which have been received enthusiastically by critics across the UK and further afield. One of classical music’s most prestigious journals, Gramophone, described Truro Cathedral Choir as “one of the best around” in its review of a new recording of music by French composer Louis Vierne.

In addition to its commitments in Truro, the Choir has performed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Italy, Spain and the USA.

A great deal of new music has been written specially for Truro Cathedral Choir by some of the UK’s top composers. This year, music is being written for the Choir by James MacMillan, David Bednall, Philip Stopford and Howard Goodall.

The eighteen boy Choristers rehearse every day before school for at least 45 minutes. On most weekdays they come straight from school to the Cathedral where they do their homework before rehearsing for another 40 minutes and singing a service at 5.30 pm. They sing two further services on Sundays.

The boys are joined by twelve gentlemen who sing the alto, tenor and bass parts. Six are lay vicars who are based permanently here in Cornwall. Six are Choral Scholars who come from various parts of the UK and further afield to spend their gap years singing with our renowned choir. All organise their lives, work and holidays around the Choir’s busy schedule of commitments.