The Annual Reunion - Easter Monday
2025 Reunion - 21st April - Book now!
Information and booking form - all now online (click here) - including ECOCA membership renewal, dinner booking and payment. Form to be submitted by 21st March.
Note - the hotel is not allowing Dinner Bookings after 21st March or 'on the day'. You can still submit the form after that for membership renewal and to let us know you want to join in with the other activities of the day.
Some of our membership information is very out of date, so please share the booking link with any siblings/old friends you think might not have received booking information, regardless of whether you think they'll attend the reunion.
Programme of the day:
10.30 Practice in the Cathedral
11.30 Choral Eucharist: OCs join the Cathedral Choir
Mass: Schubert in G
Anthem: Locus Iste - Anton Bruckner
12.55 Cooked Lunch at the Chantry (£9 - book via the online form - or bring your own picnic)
14.00 Rehearsal in the Cathedral
15.00 Evensong: OCs join the Cathedral Choir to sing:
Introit: Give me my scallop-shell of quiet - Andrew Millington
Canticles: C. V. Stanford in C
Anthem: I Was Glad - C. H. H. Parry
16.00 Reception in the new Cloister
17.00 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (Chapter House)
All welcome - come and get involved in the running of your Association
19.00 for 19.30 Dinner at Mercure Southgate Hotel, Southernhay East, EX1 1QF
Note - The hotel is not allowing Dinner Bookings after 21st March or 'on the day'. Use the online form to book by 21st March!!
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Ecoca reunion - rehearsal
Reunion Dinner
2024 - Reunion - please send any photos you have 2023 Reunion - photos to come 2022 Reunion 2021 Reunion - cancelled, Covid 2020 Reunion - cancelled, Covid 2019 Reunion 2018 Reunion 2017 Reunion 2016 Reunion 2015 Reunion - During the reunion, the Old Choristers and the current Cathedral Choir together sing Eucharist in the morning and Evensong in the quire of the cathedral. The resultant conjubilation is amazing to hear!
- Lunch is served in the Cathedral School. Will it taste the same as you remember?
- The day concludes with a convivial formal dinner, with guest speaker. The dinner is usually held in a hotel within walking distance of the cathedral. It is attended by current and some past Dean and Chapter, Director of Music, Assistant Director of Music, Organ Scholar, Lay Vicars and Choral Scholars. Old Choristers' partners are warmly welcomed to attend.
- Why not make a journey back to that land of Decani and Cantoris and join us on Easter Monday?
- Make the day part of an Easter break in Devon!