Truro Cathedral Choir: Senior Girls Choristers

Two Temple Place are delighted to welcome the Truro Cathedral Choir Senior Girls Choristers for an evening of choral music in our Great Hall as part of their tour of London.

Truro Cathedral and Two Temple place were both designed by architect John Loughborough Pearson, and many of the same craftsmen worked on both buildings. We are thrilled to welcome to Choristers to our beautiful space and to deepen our connection with Truro.

Truro Cathedral Choir

Truro Cathedral Choir has an unbroken tradition dating back to the 1880s, when services took place in a wooden shed while John Loughborough Pearson’s cathedral was under construction. Today, the choir usually performs with either its boy and girl choristers (aged 8-13) or its senior girl choristers (aged 13-18), joined by its twelve adult professional singers.

The twelve adult professional singers comprise seven Lay Vicars (permanent members of the choir) and five Choral Scholars (pre- or post-university students from all over the country and further afield).

The younger choristers are aged 8 to 13, and the senior girl choristers are aged 13 to 18; all attend Truro School and its preparatory school, where scholarships and bursaries are available, with the aim that selection is based purely on ability.

As well as singing at seven services each week, the choir undertakes regular concerts, broadcasts, webcasts, foreign tours, and CD recordings. The choir has appeared on BBC1, BBC2, BBC4, and ITV, as well as taking part in regular live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. In May 2023, Truro’s girl choristers were among the first women in history to sing at a British coronation, performing alongside other world-class musicians for the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Westminster Abbey. The choir’s recordings have included single-composer discs of music by Maurice Duruflé, Louis Vierne, Benjamin Britten, Philip Stopford, Gabriel Jackson and Dobrinka Tabakova. A wealth of new music has been written specially for the choir by many of the UK’s leading composers.

Truro Cathedral Choir sings at the 5.30pm services most weeks during term time on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Sunday sung services are at 10.00am and 4.00pm. Further details about services, concerts, choristerships and choral scholarships can be found at www.trurocathedral.org.uk.

Today’s performance will be given by the choir’s senior girl choristers, joined by past choristers and friends pursuing musical careers in London.

Doors open from 6.30pm. The performance starts at 7pm. The performance will last approximately 75 minutes.

Limited spaces available, booking essential. Tickets are £12. If the ticket price presents a difficulty, please get in touch with us at info@twotempleplace.org.

Please join the waitlist if the event is sold out. Purchase tickets on Eventbrite or book directly by emailing info@twotempleplace.org or phoning 0207 836 3715.

For information on how to plan your visit, please check the Visit Us page.

Photo of Truro Cathedral's Choir by Elowen Media.