Cathedral Choirs
Auditions for any of our Cathedral Choirs are held year-round by appointment. Please contact Canon Martin Green to make arrangements, greenm@stpaulcathedral.org
Cathedral Choristers
Currently, the choir sings Evensong services on the first and third Sunday of the month, as well as Christmas Lessons and Carols, Easter Day, the St. George Festal Evensong, occasional Sunday Morning services, and a number of other concerts and outside appearances. The choir is open to enrollment for boys age 7 and up, with unchanged voices. Rehearsals are on Wednesdays at 4.30pm in the choir room.
The choir of boys and men was founded in 1963 by then Organist & Choirmaster Larry King. Since then, the traditional Anglican sound of boy's and men's voices has flourished, and remains the only boy's choir in San Diego, and one of only a handful in the United States.
St. Cecilia Choir
A choir for girls was founded in the nineteen-sixties. In 1977 the Girls Choir was reconstituted as the St. Cecilia Choir of girls and men, making it an equivalent counterpart to the Choristers.
The treble section of girls aged seven through eighteen (or their Senior year in High School) creates a different sound from the boys trebles and, with a higher average, is able to perform some of the more challenging compositions.
Currently, the choir sings Evensong services on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, and for Advent Procession, St. Cecilia Day Festal Evensong, Easter Day, Easter Lessons and Carols, occasional Sunday Morning services, and a number of other concerts and outside appearances.
The choir is open to enrollment for girls age 7 and up, through their Senior year of High School. Rehearsals are on Tuesdays at 4.30pm in the choir room. Auditions are held year-round by appointment. Please contact Martin Green
Many of our boy and girl choristers appear with the San Diego Opera and the San Diego Symphony, and in the past have performed with the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego and Tijuana. Both choirs are affiliated with the Royal School of Church Music, an international network of more than 9,000 affiliated groups and individual members in over 40 countries throughout the world, based in England.
Cathedral Choir
The Cathedral Choir of mixed adult voices was started at the original St Paul's Church in the late nineteenth century, and was the first vested choir in San Diego County.
Currently, the choir consists of a mix of volunteers and paid professional singers and is heard primarily at the Sunday Morning Choral Eucharist.
Other duties of the choir include singing for special Feasts and Saints' Days and a number of diocesan events as well as presenting major choral works in concert on occasion. Rehearsals are held on Thursday evenings. For further information, or to schedule an audition, please contact Martin Green.
Cathedral Schola
This group of sixteen professional musicians is dedicated to the preservation of the great Anglican choral tradition.
Founded in 2001, the Schola sings Evensong when the Cathedral Choristers and the St. Cecilia Choir are out of session (including much of the summer break) and at other special services and concerts throughout the year.
