{"id":116089,"date":"2025-07-16T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=116089"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:33:18","slug":"preview-anna-lapwood-chapel-choir-pembroke-college-tour-toronto-canadian-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2025\/07\/16\/preview-anna-lapwood-chapel-choir-pembroke-college-tour-toronto-canadian-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | Anna Lapwood & The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College Tour In Toronto & Other Canadian Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anna Lapwood conducts The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge (Photo courtesy of the Choir)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anna Lapwood, British superstar organist and choir director, will be bringing The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to Toronto and other Canadian cities on tour. The tour will begin in Montr\u00e9al (July 21 to 24), then hit Qu\u00e9bec City (July 25), Ottawa (July 26 and 27), Kingston (July 29 and 30), and finish up in Toronto (August 1 to 3).<\/p>\n

The choir will be performing concerts, with Lapwood directing, and also singing during services at many of the churches during the tour.<\/p>\n

Anna Lapwood<\/h3>\n

Anna Lapwood MBE is an organist, conductor and popular broadcaster on the BBC. She has been Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge for a decade. She is also the Organist of the Royal Albert Hall and is Artist in Association with the BBC Singers.<\/p>\n

Anna\u2019s formal music education began with studies in piano, violin, viola and composition at the Junior Royal Academy of Music. She can play a total of 15 instruments, and was the principal harpist for the\u00a0National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain\u00a0and the Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n

On her appointment, she became the youngest person ever to hold the title of Music Director at Pembroke College. Among other initiatives, she founded the Pembroke College Girls\u2019 Choir for girls from local schools aged 11 to 18 in 2018, and that choir performs weekly during the school year.<\/p>\n

As a recitalist, Anna has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and St Thomas Church in New York, among other prominent venues, and at cathedrals across Europe. She played with UK DJ and producer Bonobo before a crowd of 5,000 in 2022.<\/p>\n

Anna was the associate artist at Royal Albert Hall, and was named the Hall\u2019s inaugural official organist in 2025. Since her appointment there, she has leveraged a popular social media presence into a forum for popularizing and educating modern audiences about the ancient instrument.<\/p>\n

Her recent album Firedove<\/a> has been climbing up the global classical music charts.<\/p>\n

The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College<\/h3>\n

The members of the Chapel Choir of Pembroke College come from a variety of disciplines, brought together in their love of choral music. The Choir is known for its high standard of performance, and a wide ranging repertoire that includes both traditional sacred music and contemporary classical as well as arrangements of pop music.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve toured worldwide throughout the UK, Europe, the United States, Thailand, Zambia and beyond.<\/p>\n

They have recorded and released music on the Signum Records label, and recorded at Abbey Road studio with Grammy-award winning composer Christopher Tin and singer-songwriter Tom Chaplin.<\/p>\n

After a decade leading the choir, it will be the last tour for Lapwood, who made what she calls a \u201creally difficult decision\u201d to give up the position in order to focus on organ performance.<\/p>\n

They perform together on her current album, Firedove.<\/p>\n