Other Old Choristers' Associations
Choir Tour to France - July 2025The Cathedral Choir will be giving concerts in the following venues:
16 July 21:00 - Basilica of Douvres-la-Deliverande, Normandy
17 July 14:00 - Bayeux Cathedral (1986 choristers may remember a previous French tour when we sang evensong here)
18 July 14:00 - Rouen Cathedral
19 July 15:00 - Saint-Sulpice Church, 2 Rue Palatine, Paris
20 July 16:00 - La Madeleine Church, Place de la Madeleine, Paris
All concerts are free and all are welcome to attend.
If you would like to know more about the tour or would like to sponsor a meal or snack, do contact the Precentor.
Organ Recitals - Summer 2025All are on Thursday evenings, starting at 7.00 p.m.
Information and Tickets via Cathedral website
Programme of the day:
- Practice in the Cathedral
- Choral Eucharist: OCs joined the Cathedral Choir
Mass: Schubert in G
Anthem: Locus Iste - Anton Bruckner
- Cooked Lunch at the Chantry
- Rehearsal in the Cathedral
- Evensong: OCs joined 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
- Devon cream-tea reception in the new Cloister
- ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (Chapter House)
- Dinner at Mercure Southgate Hotel, Exeter
Award of ECOCA Vice-President to: Rev. Canon Carl Turner, Precentor of Exeter, 2001-2014
Guest speaker: Katherine Dienes, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral
Photo gallery available here
(please send any photos that you have to ecoca.exeter@gmail.com)
The current choir's Exeter Cathedral Choir Association has an essential aim of raising money for enrichment activities for the choristers and to help fund choir tours. You can support this at no cost to you, by simply doing your online shopping using 'Easyfunding'
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/exetercathedralchoirassoc/
Over £1,500 has been raised so far this way!