01/07/2025
The JP2 Cultural Foundation will be hosting during this weekend the Woldingham School Choir to perform in four occasions in Malta and 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.
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 (Malta) on Friday 4 July 2025 at 19.00hrs. the second recital will take place at the Our Lady of Fair Havens & St. Dominic Basilica Church in VALLETTA, on Saturday 5th July 2025 at 19.00hrs. On Sunday 5th July 2025 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. While the third recital will take place at St. Anthony of Padua Church GHAJNSIELEM (Gozo) On Monday 7th July 2025 at 19.30hrs.
