Kilpeck and Dore Abbey

The broadcaster and author of A Little History of the English Parish Church leads a guided visit to the beautiful church at Kilpeck, with its Saxon-Norman carvings, and Dore Abbey, the surviving part of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery. Hereford Cathedral School Chamber Choir will provide a little music after the tour at Dore Abbey.

Supported by Friends of Herefordshire Museums and Arts & Mr JM Renshall

The festival is very pleased to welcome back David Briggs, former artistic director at Gloucester Three Choirs and now an internationally-renowned organist with a world-wide reputation as an innovative musician and dazzling performer.

Martyn Lane director

Come and hear Herefordshire's singing club for school-age children, part of Hereford Cathedral's acclaimed singing outreach programme.

Holy Trinity Church is 1 mile from the city centre.

Suported by the Beckett Bulmer Fund

James Oxley tenor
Caroline Dowdle piano

Winterreise, perhaps the most personal of Schubert's song cycles, is uncompromising in its confrontation of lost love, isolation and despair.

This tea is open to all and will be hosted by the Friends of Hereford Three Choirs Festival.

Supported by the Chairman's Circle and Alison Millard & Friends

Three Cathedral Choirs
Music for Awhile Orchestra
Stephen Layton conductor

This year, the Three Cathedral Choirs tackle Handel’s great oratorio Israel in Egypt.  This promises to be a performance to remember.

Neil Moore director

Finalists in the 2008 BBC Choir of the Year competition and one of the top youth choirs in the country, these singers promise an evening from Tallis to Over the rainbow and back again!