The Music Team

Chichester Cathedral Choir is one of the most respected Cathedral choirs in the country, and is particularly noted for the beautiful and gentle tone which it produces in the sympathetic acoustic of the Cathedral.

The Epiphany Procession

Chichester Cathedral Choir is particularly noted for the beautiful and gentle tone which it produces in the sympathetic acoustic of the Cathedral. 

The statutes at Chichester provide for eighteen trebles and six lay vicars.  The choristers and probationers are educated at the Prebendal School, where as well as their singing, choristers learn the piano and an orchestral instrument, spending at least eighteen hours a week on musical performance.  The lay vicars are all professional singers.

On stage the Choir has appeared with artists as diverse as Petula Clark, Richard Stilgoe, the King's Singers, the Cambridge Buskers, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and Cantabile. Television appearances have included Placido' Domingo's Christmas Choice and Rumpole of the Bailey. In 1985 their recording of Cathedral Music by Geoffrey Burgon won a Critics Choice of the year Award in Gramophone Magazine.

The Choir regularly tours abroad, and in recent years has visited France, Northern Bavaria (Bamberg, Bayreuth, Nurenberg and Wurzburg), and makes frequent visits to Chartres.  In spring 2005, the Choir made a hugely successful tour to South Africa....

Chorister places and voice trials

Sarah Baldock

Organist and Master of the Choristers

Finalist in the 1998 Calgary International, and prizewinner at the 2000 Odense and 2002 Dallas International Organ Competitions, Sarah Baldock is a popular soloist in the UK and abroad. Performances have included concertos with the City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Philharmonic and Hampshire Youth Orchestras and solo concerts in the Channel Islands, Europe, USA and Canada. Educated as a music scholar at St Paul's Girls' School in London, and as Organ Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge, she won top prizes in the RCO diploma examinations and a bursary for postgraduate study with David Sanger and Thomas Trotter.