Ex Cathedra
![Ex Cathedra Ex Cathedra](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/10S1zpOR9wEM3wsbxESPUB/91f763b11cb85866fb28514e9f98cdde/Ex_20Cathedra-22_2F01_2F2023-22_3A24_3A09.png?w=1200&fm=avif&q=75)
Continuo Foundation grantee
Supported by Continuo Foundation
Ex Cathedra is a leading UK choir and Early Music ensemble. We give ground-breaking performances of music from the 12th to the 21st centuries and lead the sector in the fields of learning and wellbeing.
For more than 50 years we have been producing highly-acclaimed concerts and participatory projects, and nurturing young musicians from our youth training choirs to our student and graduate Scholar schemes.
We enjoy an international reputation for our performances of the best, the unfamiliar and the unexpected, and take pride in developing the repertoire through researching and reviving little-known gems, commissioning new work, and developing exciting ways of engaging audiences and participants.
Founded by Jeffrey Skidmore in 1969, the group has grown into a unique musical resource, comprising specialist chamber choir, vocal Consort, period-instrument orchestra, and a thriving education and participation programme, aiming to explore, research and commission the finest choral music and to set the highest standards in performance and training.
We present a series of concerts in our home city of Birmingham, where we are an Associate Artist at the B:Music venues Symphony Hall & Town Hall – across the Midlands, and in London. We enjoy invitations to appear at festivals and concert series and have appeared as far afield as New York and Tel Aviv.
Our recordings include three best-selling CDs of music from the Latin American Baroque, and several CDs of French Baroque music by Charpentier, Lalande and Rameau.
As well as performing and recording Early Music, we have commissioned and recorded new works for period instruments by composers including Sally Beamish, Liz Dilnot Johnson and Alec Roth.
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Concerts
![Monteverdi Vespers 1610 Monteverdi Vespers 1610](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/5s1mjVk6GTreLDzZXpKiJ3/fef2e6392917a6bcf8de8850679be571/Copy_20of_20LFLSum24_201-1_20insta_20sq.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Monteverdi Vespers 1610
- 📅Sat 10 August 2024
- 📍Online
- 🕑9:00am
- 🎫Season ticket £85, indiv. tickets available
- 🎉Live from London Summer 2024
![Bruckner, Palestrina & Allegri Bruckner, Palestrina & Allegri](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/2Wq96mwV1cxV8gRdF806Nb/0caa6f6bd15c4c3fabfb4a8664b6068d/EC_20Bruckner_20Palestrina_20Allegri_201000_20x_20635_20copy.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Bruckner, Palestrina & Allegri
- 📅Sun 13 October 2024
- 📍Town Hall, Birmingham
- 🕑4:00pm
- 🎫£15 - £46, up to 17 & students £5, age 18-30 £15
![Bach Mass in B Minor Bach Mass in B Minor](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/2LfoHwi0jxFmc93OhvWTZI/07531f16acdfdbca3fe607db9497eb5d/EC_20Bach_20B_20Minor_201000_20x_20635_20copy.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Bach Mass in B Minor
- 📅Sun 1 December 2024
- 📍Town Hall, Birmingham
- 🕑4:00pm
- 🎫£15 - £46, up to 17 & students £5, age 18-30 £15
![Latin American Baroque Ritual 1631 Latin American Baroque Ritual 1631](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/7vUglWnCpXLcIm7kFvyj8h/4dff38991535c93e2e0dd11a5d69ff83/EC_20Latin_20American_20Baroque_201000_20x_20635_20copy.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Latin American Baroque Ritual 1631
- 📅Sun 9 March 2025
- 📍Town Hall, Birmingham
- 🕑7:00pm
- 🎫£15 - £46, up to 17 & students £5, age 18-30 £15
![Latin American Baroque Ritual 1631 Latin American Baroque Ritual 1631](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/YBucnq2h5BBCTtPhje5K2/73b3ddc958d8a8f37245519a9c7ad895/EC_20Latin_20American_20Baroque_201000_20x_20635_20copy.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Latin American Baroque Ritual 1631
- 📅Wed 12 March 2025
- 📍Hereford Cathedral
- 🕑7:00pm
- 🎫£15 - £39, up to 17 & students £5. Aged 18-30 £15
![Latin American Baroque Ritual 1631 Latin American Baroque Ritual 1631](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/2Wk7CUhLsSEqRGvhZEogj0/6bcc737ab6603d1d233a22b323ab50a7/EC_20Latin_20American_20Baroque_201000_20x_20635_20copy.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Latin American Baroque Ritual 1631
- 📅Thu 20 March 2025
- 📍St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
- 🕑7:30pm
- 🎫£10-£35 + booking fee
![Good Friday Bach Good Friday Bach](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/54D2O87j8ad0DJWvpuRX5s/876942e36bae7d14d4df2324632bbc3c/EC_20St_20Matthew_20Passion_201000_20x_20635_20copy.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Good Friday Bach
- 📅Fri 18 April 2025
- 📍Symphony Hall, Birmingham
- 🕑2:00pm
- 🎫£15 - £48.50
Past programmes
![Good Friday Bach - St John Passion Good Friday Bach - St John Passion](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/52bkNn9CuII95IbFMekhSs/5c33ceb9bd8966f8f168c230b382122c/new-event-26_2F07_2F2023-17_3A39_3A53.png?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Good Friday Bach - St John Passion
- 📅Fri 29 March 2024
- 📍Symphony Hall, Birmingham
- 🕑2:00pm
- 🎫£5 - £53.50
![Baroque Passion Baroque Passion](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/4q3SDDETGsU1dmJCzEQ8yN/f0ea0b7ddc014cf016f115a2ed0bb50a/new-event-26_2F07_2F2023-17_3A35_3A45.png?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Baroque Passion
- 📅Sun 11 February 2024
- 📍Birmingham Town Hall
- 🕑4:00pm
- 🎫£5 - £46
- ➕1 other performance
![Handel's Messiah Handel's Messiah](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/58EDSW4cbTYNEBCwkQdtoS/87ecbd166ed78bf03efdf5077841015b/new-event-26_2F07_2F2023-17_3A30_3A58.png?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Handel's Messiah
- 📅Sun 3 December 2023
- 📍Symphony Hall, Birmingham
- 🕑4:00pm
- 🎫£5 - £56
![Byrd to Bacharach – and Bach Byrd to Bacharach – and Bach](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/3aK1U5duXZtUVBn7oquwSx/b2427f474beb19c41c3494733dcf676c/new-event-26_2F07_2F2023-17_3A26_3A54.png?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Byrd to Bacharach – and Bach
- 📅Tue 21 November 2023
- 📍Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
- 🕑7:00pm
- 🎫£20 (£5 concessions)
![Bach St Matthew Passion Bach St Matthew Passion](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/5gh5wBStyMFIPyyI6x3UvF/5099176d847629539cb32a4d7cc1fb68/St_20Matthew_20Passion_20-_20688_20x_20478.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Bach St Matthew Passion
- 📅Fri 7 April 2023
- 📍Symphony Hall, Birmingham
- 🕑2:00pm
- 🎫£15-£53
![Renaissance: the golden age of English choral music Renaissance: the golden age of English choral music](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/3VGqfnFhpzvSZXxx7cLk2R/5fe7a18e28234794f0e34fc68be08b06/Consort_20at_20SMiTF_20-_20688_20x_20478.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Renaissance: the golden age of English choral music
- 📅Fri 17 March 2023
- 📍St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
- 🕑7:30pm
- 🎫£9 - £32
![Byrd's Great Byrd's Great](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/3DwhBgMb4ucddFuJhLcIKW/2b2516c5c04466212dba0db320a8d9ac/Byrds_20Great_20-_20688_20x_20478.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Byrd's Great
- 📅Sun 5 February 2023
- 📍Victoria Square, Birmingham B3 3DQ, UK
- 🕑4:00pm
- 🎫£8-£45
![Singing Byrd Workshop Singing Byrd Workshop](https://images.ctfassets.net/dittccn4etc2/01fjDwS4Dk5gVzMsh86zka/3471225e753b221db472368a3b09c7e5/Byrds_20Great_20-_20688_20x_20478.jpg?w=640&h=480&fit=fill&f=face&fm=avif&q=75)
Singing Byrd Workshop
- 📅Sat 4 February 2023
- 📍CBSO Centre, Birmingham
- 🕑3:00pm
- 🎫£26.50