This concert tour celebrates the beauty of our magnificent and awe-inspiring churches, with performances of some of the most well known and uplifting sacred music. The Orchestra and the cathedral choir perform works by Thomas Tallis and Ralph Vaughan Williams, along with a new commission by Gabriel Jackson and Fauré's enduringly popular Requiem. There will also be a chance to hear the cathedral organist. perform French composer Francis Poulenc's grand and masterful Organ Concerto, in the 50th anniversary year of the composer's death.
The Fauré Requiem tour celebrates the beauty of...
Exeter Chamber Choir and AJ's Big Band in a concert of special jazz music in the city's cathedral.
Swinging His Praises is a "Mass for Life". This jazz mass is written by the choir's musical director Andrew Daldorph and features jazz psalms and other songs.
Exeter Chamber Choir was formed in 1997 from a nucleus of leading Devon-based singers. Previous musical directors include the composer-conductors Antony le Fleming and Graham Treacher. The current director is Andrew Daldorph and its patron is Emma Kirby DBE. The Choir’s repertoire includes works with orchestra, new...
On 2, 3 and 4 October, Exeter Cathedral will be the setting for a multimedia response to the building's 900 year history and the contributions that craftspeople have made during that time.
900 Years of Light is the culmination of Cathedra 900, an Arts Council England funded project by artist Mark Ware. For the past 18 months, Mark has been exploring the Cathedral and interpreting its art and architecture through photography, abstract photomontages, 3D artwork and sound. 900 Years of Light will be an evening of film, readings, music, and the premiere of Mark Ware’s video composition...
Cathedra900 invites you to enjoy 900 Years of Light. 900 Years of Light is a multimedia performance taking place at Exeter Cathedral on 2, 3 & 4 October 2013.
The performance is Mark Ware’s response to the building’s 900 year history and the contributions that craftspeople have made during that time.
900 Years of Light is the culmination of Cathedra 900 and Mark Ware’s work over the last 18 months exploring the Cathedral and interpreting its art and architecture through photography, abstract photomontages, 3D artwork and sound.
A fitting end to the Unexpected Festival's array of extraordinary performances, which took place in and around Exeter over the past week, Diverse City and Cirque Bijou's Extraordinary Bodies circus troupe with a difference wowed onlookers on Exeter Cathedral Green. The Company comprised leading disabled and non-disabled dancers, actors and circus performers, and highly skilled Paralympians new to the world of performance.
Aimed at challenging perceptions of diverse and extraordinary bodies, old and young, and building on the positive perception of disabled people that emerged from...
Devon churches now have 15 new clergy after a special ordination service was held at Exeter Cathedral.
The Rt Rev John Ford, Bishop of Plymouth, conducted the ceremony, which saw 15 men and women being ordained as deacons in the Church of England. They have been called from all walks of life from the army to teaching to serve God in Devon’s villages and cities and are listed below. Ben Bradshaw to serve in the Braunton Mission Community, with the Revd Anne Thorne (Braunton with Saunton and Knowle). Madeline Bray to serve in the Bideford and the 4 Villages Mission Community, with...
Over the past month Exeter and the Heart of Devon Hotels & Restaurants Association have been asking locals and holiday makers alike to choose what they like to do best in the county. With options that included be adventurous and try kite surfing in Exmouth, take a brisk walk on Dartmoor and explore Kent’s Cavern, England’s oldest caves, there was definitely something for everyone.
The winning activity was awarded to The Red Coat Tours and Exeter Cathedral. The tours are situated in Exeter and involve a walk around the historic sites of the city including one of the finest...
The 10ft cube of Islamic graffiti art, standing in front of Exeter Cathedral forms part of a University of Exeter research project which investigates how Muslim belief has developed through theology, spirituality, law and the creative arts. On Saturday 7 September between 7 – 8.30pm there was a special event in the Cathedral focusing on the role of Christianity and Islam in public spaces. A range of speakers discussed the role and positive contribution that religion brings to the society in which we live. The topics varied from how religious art can assist as a useful form of communication...
A new choral work by award-winning British composer Gabriel Jackson will be the centrepiece of a concert at Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday 16 October 2013, as City of London Sinfonia continues its nationwide Fauré Requiem tour.
During 2013, the leading UK chamber orchestra is visiting ten of England’s finest Cathedrals for a concert series that takes audiences on a journey of liturgical music through the centuries. Each Cathedral choir will get the chance to perform with City of London Sinfonia, under the baton of the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Stephen Layton, one of the world’...
The final pieces of scaffolding will be removed from Exeter Cathedral’s West Front today, after a £300,000 stone conservation project.
The five-year project has involved cleaning, conserving and in some places replacement of some of the medieval and later stonework and carvings on the front of the Cathedral.
When the final pieces of scaffolding are removed, the public will be able to see the iconic West Front properly for the first time in five years, with the conservation work complete.
The Dean of the Cathedral, Very Revd Jonathan Draper, said the project had been...
