Schola Gregoriana
The Association for Gregorian Chant
Mass will be celebrated in the usus antiquorior, and the celebrant will be Fr Guy Nicholls Cong.Orat. The music will include plainsong, English fifteenth-century polyphony and a new motet in honour of the king. If you are able to display a printed poster, you can download a PDF to print from: http://www.scholagregoriana.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/richardIIIpdf.pdf
Douai Abbey Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd October 2017 For some years Associates of the Schola have been joining with the YCA on a weekend retreat, usually in the autumn at Douai Abbey. This year is no exception. The YCA is a group which promotes the spirit of orthodoxy with charity; it has a deliberately non-divisive outlook, […]
The fifth Gregorian Chant Workshop will be held on September 9th 2017 in St Oswald’s Church, Askrigg, North Yorkshire. Askrigg is a small village in Upper Wensleydale still famous for being the location for the TV programme ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. The day will last from 10.00am to 4.00pm. The director is Philip Duffy who […]
Friday 11th – Sunday 13th August 2017 A weekend of enchanting melody and traditional liturgy in the beautiful surroundings of St.Stephen’s House, Oxford, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the Founder of the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, Dr. Mary Berry (1917-2008), and to explore her legacy Directors: Christopher Hodkinson, Philip Duffy and Fr. Guy Nicholls The […]
Directed by John Rowlands-Pritchard John Rowlands-Pritchard will be teaching several chant workshops in a variety of places over the next few months, and also one residential course in April. Here is a summary; for details and updates, please see the Opus Anglicanum web site. 24th – 27th April, Benslow Music, Hitchin, Herts. Residential Gregorian Chant Course 01462 459446 […]
Directed by Dr. Peter Wilton, B.Ed (Hons.) M.Mus (Editor of chant for the Office of Vespers for Westminster Cathedral Choir) Discover the profound beauty and infinite variety of this timeless music by learning to sing it. From 6.30 (after end of Mass) to 8 pm. Alternate Mondays January 23, February 6 and 20, March 6 […]
Julia Jones has recently become a trustee of the Schola, and suggested we should reproduce this article which she wrote a little while ago about the Gregorian Chant Hymns web site. Gregorian Chant Hymns, (gregorian-chant-hymns.com) our website, grew out of a very practical need. Frequently, people decry the music that they hear week by week […]
Study retreat at the Abbeys of Quarr and St. Cecilia, Isle of Wight. Singers living within reach of Ealing Abbey are fortunate in having as their choir director the Reverend Dom Peter Burns, OSB. The choir meets for rehearsals on Wednesday evenings and sings the Mass from the Gregorian Sunday Missal one Sunday every month […]
Directed by Dr. Peter Wilton, B.Ed (Hons.) M.Mus (Editor of chant for the Office of Vespers for Westminster Cathedral Choir) Discover the profound beauty and infinite variety of this timeless music by learning to sing it. From 6.30 to 8 pm on Tuesdays: October 25th, November 8th, 22nd, 29th December 13th ( at 26 The Grove, […]
Douai Abbey 28th to 30th October For some years Associates of the Schola have been joining with the YCA on a weekend retreat, usually in the autumn at Douai Abbey. The YCA is a group which promotes the spirit of orthodoxy with charity; it has a deliberately non-divisive outlook, and uses the Church’s devotional heritage in order […]