The Woldingham School Choir from the UK, will this weekend perform in four events across Malta and Gozo, hosted by the JP2 Cultural Foundation of Gozo.

The Woldingham School is a leading independent Catholic girls’ school set in 700 acres of beautiful countryside in Surrey, England. Music is central to the life of the school and the whole community regularly gathers to sing as one.

Woldingham attracts musical talent from all over the globe and many of the current Music Scholars are also students at the junior departments of leading London conservatoires, including the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music.

The school holds numerous choirs, orchestras and ensembles who rehearse each week and musical excellence is enabled and celebrated. In March 2024, Woldingham School won the national Pro Corda Chamber Music Competition and the Founders’ Trophy.

Summer 2024 results for academic Music were outstanding with 100% of pupils gaining 7-9 at GCSE and a Year 13 pupil gaining an A* at A Level Music and an offer to read Music at Cambridge with an Organ Scholarship. All classroom music lessons are taught by subject specialists, and a team of 20 visiting music teachers made up of some of the finest musicians in London who deliver exceptional one-to-one music lessons in a wide variety of disciplines.

JP2 Foundation said that the standard of choral singing at Woldingham is high and every year the choirs perform in Westminster Cathedral as part of the Carol Service. The Chapel Choir has sung Evensong alongside pupils from Eton College in Eton College Chapel and the Chamber Choir has reached the final of the Girls’ School Association Choral Competition. Woldingham School regularly collaborates with, and commissions works by leading composers, including Cecilia McDowall and Errollyn Wallen, Master of the King’s Music.

The Choir will participate in its first recital at the Annunciation of Our Lady & St. Domnic Church in Birgu on Friday, the 4th of July, at 7pm. The second recital will take place at the Our Lady of Fair Havens & St. Dominic Basilica Church in Valletta, on Saturday, the 5th, at 7pm. On Sunday, the 6th, the choir will be animating a High Mass by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Paul in Mdina at 9.30am to be televised live on TVM2. The third recital will take place on Gozo, at St. Anthony of Padua Church Ghajnsielem, on Monday, the 7th, at 7.30pm.

The public are warmly invited to attend the events.

Photo: JP2 Foundation

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