Music at Holy Trinity

Music has been part of Holy Trinity since the church was built. Our organists have included Edwin Lemare, Walter Alcock and the composer John Ireland, and a choir has sung for Sunday services since 1890. Makoto James is our Organist, and Max Barley is Director of Music.

There are five ways to sing here, and most of them are open to you.

Holy Trinity Choir

Four professional singers who lead the Sunday morning Mass and the major feasts, joined twice a month by four Choral Scholars. The scholars' places exist because apprenticeship was at the heart of the Arts and Crafts movement, and we still believe in it. If you are a singer starting out in London church music, write to Max at [email protected].

Holy Trinity Evensong Choir

A group who love singing Evensong and sing roughly six a term. If you sang at university, recently or a long time ago, and want those days back, you would be very welcome. Have a look at the current music list, then email [email protected].

Conqordia

Experienced amateur singers drawn from the leading amateur choirs in London, singing here since the 1990s. They were central to bringing weekly Choral Evensong back in 2016. Founded by Mike Abrams, directed by Paul Heggs, with Michael Brough at the organ.

Holy Trinity Children's Choir

Free, and open to any child aged 6 to 13 who loves to sing. About fifteen children rehearse every Tuesday at 4pm for forty-five minutes, singing everything from Joseph to choruses from Handel's Messiah, and they sing in large-scale performances alongside professional orchestras. No audition. To bring your child along, email [email protected].

Songs and Soup

An informal community choir in the Parish Room, Tuesdays at 1pm for forty-five minutes, followed by a free bowl of soup. Open to everyone: retired people, people living with memory difficulty and their carers, and anyone on a lunch break. Songs from the shows, folk and pop songs and favourite hymns. No charge and certainly no audition. Just come.

Visiting choirs

On Sunday evenings when our own singers are not singing, we are glad to welcome visiting choirs to a generous acoustic, a four-manual cathedral organ and some of the finest stained glass in London. Choirs new to us are asked to send a recent recording. Write to Max at [email protected].

Through the year, most festivals are kept with a Sung Eucharist. There are carol services at Christmas and Epiphany, a sequence of music and readings on Palm Sunday evening, and a Sung Requiem on All Souls' Day with music by Duruflé or Fauré. On Trinity Sunday all our musicians come together to keep our feast of title.