Music events at the Cathedral

Choral Services at the Cathedral, sung by the Cathedral Choir, Term 2025

Sunday 1 June
8.30am Choral Communion - Cathedral Chamber Choir
Setting (K, S, G, A): Darke in A minor
Anthem: Do not be afraid: Stopford
Hymns: Hail the day that sees Him rise (Llanfair)
Rejoice, the Lord is King (Darwell’s 148th)
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)

10.30am Morning Prayer - Cathedral Choir
Hymns: Hail the day that sees Him rise (Llanfair)
Rejoice, the Lord is King (Darwell’s 148th)
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
Anthems: Viri Galilaei: Gowers
Psalm 24, 1-20
O Clap your hands: Vaughan Williams
Preacher: Rev Matt Redmond
Voluntary: A Trumpet Minuet: Hollins

Monday 2 June
5.15pm Choral Evensong - Cathedral Choristers
Boughen responses
Psalm 68
Wadely in Eb
Anthem: Give glory to the Lord: Bach, arr. Cobb
Hymn: See the conqueror mounts in triumph (Abbott’s Leigh)
Preacher: Rev Chris Allan

Thursday 5 June
1.10pm: No Organ Recital due to School event
5.15pm Choral Evensong to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Orlando Gibbons - Cathedral Choir
Introit: A song of Moses: Gibbons
Radcliffe responses
Psalm 119: 25-32
Gibbons short service
Anthem: Almighty and everlasting God: Gibbons
Hymn: Forth in Thy name (Song 1)
Preacher: Rev Justin Moffat
Voluntary: Fantasia in foure parts: Gibbons

Whitsunday 8 June
10.30am Morning Prayer - Cathedral Chamber Choir
Anthems: The Spirit of the Lord: Elgar
If ye love me: Wilby
Veni Creator Spiritus: Bullock
Hymns: Come down, O love divine (Down Ampney)
Breathe on me, breath of God (Carlisle)
O Thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Preacher: Rt Rev Dr Michael Stead, Bishop of South Sydney
Voluntary: Fantasia on ‘Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist’: JS Bach

Monday 9 June- Cathedral closed. No Evensong (King’s birthday weekend)

Thursday 12 June
5.15pm Choral Evensong - Cathedral Choir
Nixon responses
Psalm 76
Howells- Collegium Regale
Anthem: A Song of Light (from Phos Hilaron): Park
Hymn: At even, ere the the sun (Angelus)
Preacher: Rev Jonathan Adams

Trinity Sunday 15 June
10.30am Morning Prayer with Cantata no 129 by JS Bach (Cathedral Choir & Orchestra)
Introit: ‘Twas in the year King Uzziah died: Wood
Hymns: Holy, holy, holy (Nicea)
I bind unto myself today (St Patrick’s Breastplate)
The God of Abraham praise (Leoni)
Preacher: Rev Dr Andrew Leslie (Moore College)
Voluntary: Grand Fugue in Eb (St Anne): JS Bach

Monday 16 June
5.15pm Choral Evensong - Cathedral Choristers
Boughen responses
Psalm 119: 25-32
Bairstow in Eb
Anthem: Litany to the Holy Spirit: Hurford
Hymn: Holy, holy, holy (Nicea)
Preacher: Rev Chris Allan

Thursday 19 June
1.10pm Organ Recital by Fiona Loader (Sydney)
5.15pm Choral Evensong - Cathedral Choir
Nixon responses
Psalm 122
Stanford in A
Anthem: I saw the Lord: Stainer
Hymn: I bind unto myself today (St Patrick’s Breastplate)
Preacher: Rev Ben Gray

Sunday 21 June
10.30am Holy Communion - Cathedral Choir
Anthems: Coronation Kyrie: Mealor
I saw the Lord: Stainer
Gloria in Excelsis: Darke (setting in F)
A Prayer of King Henry VI: Ley
A Song of Light (from Phos Hilaron): Park
Hymns: Immortal, invisible (St Denio)
Of the Father’s heart begotten (Corde natus)
O Love of God (Before the Throne)
Preacher: The Dean

Monday 22 June
5.15pm Choral Evensong - Cathedral Choristers
Archer responses
Psalm 71:12-22
Blatchley in C, Burgon in F
Anthem: Duo Seraphim: Dering
Hymn: I heard the voie of Jesus say (Kingsfold)
Preacher: Rev Anthony Weiss

Thursday 24 June
5.15pm Choral Evensong - Cathedral Choir
Ebdon responses
Psalm 2
Murrill in E
Anthem: Hail, gladdening light: Wood
Hymn: Holy, holy, holy (Nicea)
Preacher: Rev Peter Rogers

The Cathedral Choir is on recess until Monday 21 July

Thursday 3 July
1.10pm Organ Recital by Bailey Yeates (St Paul’s Burwood)
5.15pm Choral Evensong - Guest Quartet
Smith responses
Psalm 47
Tallis short service
Anthem: The Earth is the Lord’s: Monk
Hymn: Be Thou my vision (Slane)
Preacher: Rev Jonathan Adams

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The Very Rev Sandy Grant, Dean of Sydney
Mr Ross Cobb, Organist & Director of Music
Mr Sean Henderson, Assistant Organist
Mr Samuel Giddy, Assistant Organist