In addition, they regularly provide music at the services in the Cathedral when the Cathedral Choir is on holiday. The Musical Director is Douglas McIlwraith, who is also the Organ Scholar at the Cathedral and Musical Director at Blackhall Parish Church. Chapter House Singers have performed an interesting range of music, including works by Tallis, Byrd, Purcell, Monteverdi, Carissimi, as well as Haydn, Mozart, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Faure and Rossini. A number of the Lay Clerks and former Choristers have also taken part in the concerts as soloists. The Fairy Queen on Saturday, 16th June, also in St. Mary's Cathedral R ehearsals take place on Wednesday evenings at 7.30 p.m. in the Cathedral Song School.
Membership is by audition and potential new members are always welcomed.
Anyone interested in joining should contact the Cathedral Office. I t was decided to concentrate the resources of the Choir School to form St Mary's Music School. The first instrumentalist pupils were admitted in 1972. Both the choral tradition and the environment of the cathedral are important. For this reason the Cathedral Choir was opened to girls of the same age in 1977.