About the Group
We are a group of choral scholars drawn from the renowned Choir of Trinity College. We sing a wide range of repertoire from ancient liturgical to close harmony arrangements of well-known songs, though the group's main purpose is to give us the opportunity to sing the latter away from the stalls of the College chapel.
We sing in a wide variety of voice-part combinations, and our ability to call upon sopranos makes us unique amongst Cambridge close harmony groups, allowing to produce the greatest possible variety of sounds. We began as a group of eight, but we have embraced anachronism to increase the group to a larger complement to inject greater versatility into our repertoire.
The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
The choir from which we are drawn is arguably the leading mixed-voice choir in Oxford or Cambridge, having recently been the only such group to be included in Gramophone magazine's list of the world's twenty leading choirs, and the only non-professional group in the top five. It distinguished itself from the choral foundations in 1982 with the admission of women to the choir. The choir has made some fifty recordings since then, to critical acclaim; two experts from Gramophone selected the recent Briggs CD as their pick of of the year in 2010.
Trinity Choir is directed by Stephen Layton, a former Organ Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and Director of Music at Temple Church, but most famous for founding and directing Polyphony, rated in the world's top two choirs by Gramophone. He is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of City of London Sinfonia, Music Director of the Holst Singers, and Guest Conductor of the Danish National Vocal Ensemble.
For details on the Choir, please see their website.