The Adult Choir

About the Choir

The Adult Choir sings the main Eucharist each Sunday of the year, and offers Choral Evensong during the regular choir season. 

Singing in this choir requires good music reading skills, and a voice that blends well with others. The choir works toward a pure, vibrant and expressive tone, suitable for the English cathedral music that forms the core of the choir's standard repertoire.

Rehearsals are on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.  Each fall, the choir goes on a weekend retreat for concentrated rehearsal of music for the busy seasons of Advent and Christmas.

On tours to England, the Adult Choir sang with the choir of Guildford Cathedral as well as a sister parish in Sandhurst.

Our Organist/Choirmaster Kevin Kerstetter conducts the Adult Choir.

Several of the choir's singers enjoy attending the Royal School of Church Music's Carolina Course each summer.

Please contact our Organist/Choirmaster directly if you are interested in being part of the Adult Choir.

Repertoire

The choir's standard repertoire includes works by Alain, Allegri, Archer, Arnesen, Aston, Attwood, Bach, Bainton, Bairstow, Balfour Gardiner, Batten, Bradford, Brahms, Brewer, Britten, Bruckner, Bullard, Bullock, Byrd, Carter, Chilcott, Cooman, Darke, de Séverac, Dering, Distler, Duruflé, Dyson, Elgar, Farrant, Fauré, Finzi, Franck, Friedell, Gardner, Gibbons, Gjeilo, Goodall, Goss, Greene, Hallock, Handel, Hadley, Hancock, Hawes, Harris, Holst, Howells, Hurd, Hurford, Ireland, Ives, Jackson, Lauridsen, Ledger, Leighton, Locklair, Lole, Manz, Martin, Mathias, Mealor, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, Monteverdi, Mozart, Nardone, Near, Neary, Neswick, Noble, Oxley, Palestrina, Parry, Pärt, Paulus, Phillips, Pinkham, Poston, Purcell, Rachmaninoff, Radcliffe, Rawsthorne, Rutter, Sanders, Shephard, Sitton, Stainer, Stanford, Stopford, Stravinsky, Tallis, Tavener, Thompson, Titcomb, Todd, Tye, Vaughan Williams, Victoria, Vierne, Walmisley, Walton, Wesley, Whitlock, Wilby, Willcocks, Wood and many others. The choir has sung larger choral works such as Vivaldi’s Gloria, Schubert’s Mass in G, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Rutter’s Gloria, Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Handel’s Messiah, Bach's Cantata 80 - Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, Finzi's In terra pax, and the Requiems of Duruflé, Mozart, Fauré, and Rutter.

Choral Scholars

We are thrilled to have as this year’s choral scholars Christopher Hunter (tenor), Bryan Pyrtle (bass), and Tristan Ream (baritone).