Cantores
Chamber Choir

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About
The Leading Chamber Choir
In The Cotswolds
Cantores are a highly sought-after chamber choir with a growing reputation for innovative and exciting programming, creating memorable performances in and around the Cotswolds.
We consist of 30 enthusiastic and dedicated singers under Musical Director Simon Harper, performing at the highest amateur standard and thrilling audiences around the Cotswolds with choral music from the Middle Ages to the present.
We currently have vacancies in our tenor section. If you would like to audition, or find out more, please contact us at cantorescotswolds@gmail.com or via our contact page.
Cantores News
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Parry, Highnam, and the Songs of FarewellJanuary 27, 2025
Parry, Highnam, and the Songs of Farewell
Sir Hubert Parry became a well-known public figure in his lifetime, celebrated as composer of the anthem I was Glad for the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902, and the song Jerusalem, written …
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Darkness into light – music for adventOctober 6, 2024
Darkness into light – music for advent
Cantores Chamber Choir, directed by Simon Harper, presents a concert of music and readings exploring some of the themes of Advent – mystery and expectation, the journey from darkness …
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Bach and Handel with the Musical and Amicable Society ReviewJuly 14, 2024
Bach and Handel with the Musical and Amicable Society Review
Bach and Handel are the ‘giants’ of Baroque composition. Under the direction of Simon Harper,Cantores Chamber Choir and the Musical and Amicable Society orchestra combined to ensure that jus…
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Bach and Handel with the Musical and Amicable SocietyJune 7, 2024
Bach and Handel with the Musical and Amicable Society
Cantores Chamber Choir directed by Simon Harper presents a programme of richly scored Baroque masterpieces, accompanied by period instrument ensemble The Musical and Amicable Society. The co…
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Thomas Tallis ReimaginedNovember 28, 2023
Thomas Tallis Reimagined
Cantores presents a programme centred around the music of one of England’s greatest composers Thomas Tallis, including many of his magnificent Latin motets, as well as his nine tunes …
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An Elizabethan ChristmasOctober 21, 2023
An Elizabethan Christmas
Join Cantores and viol consort Fretwork for a seasonal musical treat, recreating the atmosphere of Christmas over 400 years ago with vocal and instrumental works by Byrd, Gibbons, Amner, To…
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Byrd & Bells: an Eventide Holy CommunionOctober 21, 2023
Byrd & Bells: an Eventide Holy Communion
Cantores are singing William Byrds Mass for Four Voices as part of a service of Eventide Communion at All Saints Church, Turkdean, at 6:30pm on Sunday 19th November 2023 to celebrate the re…
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Ocean of Light: A Choral CelebrationSeptember 7, 2023
Ocean of Light: A Choral Celebration
Gorgeous choral music from the combined voices of Cantores Chamber Choir directed by Simon Harper and Wiltshire-based Cantamus Chamber Choir directed by Mike Daniels. The first half of the …
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AbendliedMay 10, 2023
Abendlied
Cantores Chamber Choir, directed by Simon Harper and accompanied by organist Warwick Cole, presents a programme of Baroque and Romantic music by Schütz, Bach, Bruckner, Brahms and Rheinberg…
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As the year turnsDecember 14, 2022
As the year turns
Cantores Chamber Choir directed by Simon Harper presents an eclectic programme of music and readings on the theme of nature and the seasons, encompassing a broad spectrum of choral music fr…
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Severn MeadowsSeptember 30, 2022
Severn Meadows
Music inspired by Gloucestershire Programme to include:Mass in G Minor Vaughan WilliamsRequiem HowellsSevern Meadows Kerensa Briggs (commission) Cantores Chamber Choir directed by Sim…
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Cantores is 30!August 3, 2022
Cantores is 30!
Cantores Chamber Choir Choir formed in 1991 celebrated a belated birthday party at the GWSR at Winchcombe, with a steam train ride to Broadway.
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Mystical SongsMay 4, 2022
Mystical Songs
Duruflé Requiem Bernstein Chichester Psalms Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs. Cantores Chamber Choir and professional orchestra Central England Camerata collaborate to…
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Choral Scholarship SchemeMarch 7, 2022
Choral Scholarship Scheme
Calling young singers! Who Are We? Cantores is a successful chamber choir based in the Cotswolds. We sing mainly a cappella, but occasionally perform with an accompanist, or an orches…
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At the Water's EdgeJanuary 8, 2022
At the Water’s Edge
Cantores Chamber Choir directed by Simon Harper presents a varied programme of a cappella music on the theme of water, exploring its natural beauty in partsongs by Elgar, Stanford, Finzi, D…
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Saints and AngelsSeptember 16, 2021
Saints and Angels
Cantores Chamber Choir, directed by Simon Harper, presents an eclectic programme of music on the theme of saints and angels, spanning many centuries. We glimpse the choirs of heaven in…
VideOS
Cantores directed by Simon Harper sing Sleep by Eric Whitacre recorded live in concert at Church of St Peter and St Paul, Northleach (reproduced by kind permission of Walton Music Corp)
Cantores directed by Simon Harper sing Ave Verum Corpus by William Byrd recorded live in concert at St Mary’s Church Prestbury, Cheltenham
Cantores directed by Simon Harper sing In Pace by John Sheppard recorded live in concert at St Peter’s Church Leckhampton, Cheltenham
Cantores directed by Simon Harper sing How Calmly The Evening by Sir Edward Elgar recorded live in concert at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Northleach