500th Anniversary Concert - Belshazzar’s Feast at Ely Cathedral

The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge celebrates 500 years of St John’s College

Ely Cathedral – Friday 18 November, 7.30pm

The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge brings the 500th anniversary of the founding of St John’s College to a climax with a large-scale celebratory concerts featuring Walton’s dramatic oratorio Belshazzar’s Feast, in the magnificent setting of Ely Cathedral on Friday 18 November. 

The Choir of St John’s has invited the Choirs of Clare, Gonville & Caius, Jesus and Trinity Colleges to take part in this special concert, presenting a rare opportunity to hear a blend of the different Cambridge College Choir sound-worlds.

The choirs are accompanied by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of St John’s Music Director Andrew Nethsingha. Andrew has invited past members of the Choir of St John’s to join in the concert, and the soloists are the acclaimed mezzo-soprano Dame Ann Murray, and St John’s alumni baritones Leigh Melrose.  Alongside Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, Ely hosts Mahler’s treasure-trove of glitteringly orchestrated folk melodies, Des Knaben Wunderhorn. St John’s Choir perform Bruckner’s Christus factus est, and the orchestra Elgar’s evocative overture In the South.

More information is available on the Choir's website.