Frideswide Voices
Frideswide Voices is the girls’ choir of Christ Church Cathedral, singing each week in the Cathedral alongside adult singers, the Lay and Academical Clerks.
Established in 2014 under the auspices of The Frideswide Foundation, a charitable trust, the choir was founded to promote opportunities for girls, aged between 7 and 14, to sing within the liturgy in Oxford college chapels.
Since 2019, the choir has been part of the choral foundation at Christ Church.
The choristers, from schools right across Oxfordshire, come to the Cathedral at least twice a week to rehearse, study and sing services in the Cathedral and are provided with a rich, intensive musical education from a team of tutors.
Services with the choir
The choristers sing Evensong each Wednesday at 6pm in term time with the adult Lay and Academical Clerks and for various other services throughout the year.
Frideswide Voices are in residence at the Cathedral for three weekends across the academic year and join the boy choristers for a variety of major Cathedral services.
Choir director
Frideswide Voices are directed by Helen Smee, who conducts their weekly rehearsals and services and leads a team of specialist tutors who deliver weekly theory, singing and musicianship training to the choristers.
Performing
The Choir also tour regularly in the UK and further afield, most recently Exeter, Edinburgh, and the Orkney Islands.
Joining the choir
Information about becoming a girl chorister at Christ Church, and details of open evenings and voice trials, can be found on in the section on Joining the Choir, or by contacting us by email: frideswide.voices@chch.ox.ac.uk