The Cathedral Music Fund
Promoting a 500-year tradition of musical excellence

We are grateful to our friends and supporters who help keep the 500-year old tradition of musical excellence at Christ Church alive. 

Since the Music Fund’s establishment in 2013, one of its major aims has been to give children from all walks of life the opportunity to be a chorister, and we have successfully endowed 31 Cathedral Choristerships.

Thanks to your support over the last decade, we are now able to focus our energies on the Organist/ Choirmaster’s plans for new instruments befitting a cathedral music programme of the highest quality.

Our current priority is a fine new pipe organ to stand at the East End/Crossing of the Cathedral. This romantic-style instrument is needed to better provide choral accompaniment and facilitate the playing of organ music of the mid-nineteenth century and later. It would completement our Rieger Organ, which is particularly distinguished in the performance of earlier repertoire. The Cathedral’s Choirs have made permanent their move to the Chancel of the Cathedral, rather than the Nave, so there is also urgent need for the new organ to be in close proximity to their new location. As the college approaches its 500th anniversary, it is a timely moment to examine aspects of our musical provision, and we look forward to working with our friends and supporters to realise this vital project.