Events

The History and Future of Gregorian Chant

a Talk on The History and Future of Gregorian Chant in the Roman Liturgy by Thomas Neal, MA (Cantab), MPhil (Cantab), MEd (B’ham), FRSA, Director of Music at New College School, Oxford and organist at St Michael the Archangel, Burghclere Friday 7 February, 7:45pm, at Blessed Hugh of Faringdon Parish Hall, Marlborough Street, Faringdon, SN7 […]

St Dunstan Chant Day, St Mary’s Iffley, Oxford, Saturday 17 May, 2025

More details later, but a day in honour of St Dunstan (feast day 19 May), based on research by one of our younger Associates Henry Darlison, working from the beautiful Worcester Antiphoner, containing (we believe) the sole surviving example of the Office of St Dunstan. Before St Thomas a Becket, St Dunstan was perhaps the […]

Evening workshops London Spring 2025

Very often we are asked when these workshops will resume – and it has been a continual frustration to us that we have been unable to provide this help to singers. Laus Deo, that is going to change! Our Trustee and ex-Director Jeremy White is shortly to retire from the Royal Opera House, and is […]

Schola Requiem Mass

  There will be a Requiem Mass in the Dominican Rite for All Souls and for deceased Associates, Benefactors, and Friends of the Schola, courtesy of the Prior of St Dominic’s Rosary Shrine, London NW5. This will be offered on Saturday 2nd November 2024 at 2.30, preceded (from 11am) by a study of the sublimely-beautiful […]

Chant Day at Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon

TO BOOK A PLACE ON THIS COURSE PLEASE EMAIL: info@scholagregoriana.org   Saturday 12 October 2024 By courtesy of the Parish Priest and Parish a Gregorian Chant Day will be held at Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon on Saturday 12 October 2024, from 10.45 a.m to 6.10 p.m., culminating in the singing of 1st Vespers of the […]

Two Important London Events

TO BOOK A PLACE ON THE WIMBLEDON COURSE PLEASE EMAIL: info@scholagregoriana.org Following our very successful spring Chant Festival at Douai Abbey in May, Schola Gregoriana is delighted to announce two further events scheduled to take place in London in the autumn. Full details will be available shortly by clicking on the Events tab, but in […]

Chant Festival: Douai Abbey, May 28-30

Once again we shall return to Douai Abbey for our principal Chant event of 2024. As opportunities to participate in the Chant in its proper liturgical context have sadly diminished recently, Schola Gregoriana is particularly proud to be able to present an inspiring occasion designed to allow participants to explore the rich treasury of ancient […]

Gregorian Chant Festival at Douai Abbey, 2 – 4 May 2023

This special festival presented by Schola Gregoriana and the Association for Latin Liturgy at Douai Abbey (near Reading RG7 5TQ) will prepare and use Chant for Compline, Vespers and Latin Masses in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite.  All Options include tuition, rehearsal, provision of music, other events and daytime catering but other options […]

Malvern Chant Day

A good opportunity to discover the character of each of the eight modes and their relationship to one another. This fascinating talk was first presented by Schola Gregoriana Director, Iain Simcock, to a capacity audience at Highgate Institute in October. Iain’s report of that event included the following: After an initial historical lecture on the […]