The festival has been privileged to enjoy royal patronage for almost two centuries, and our current Patron HRH The Prince of Wales has visited the festival in recent years. Simon Carpenter, the festival’s volunteer archivist, has put together the history of our royal connections.

The winning composer will receive the John Sanders Memorial Prize for Choral Composition of £1000, the possibility of a publishing contract with Encore Publications, and the winning composition will be considered for performance at an Evensong during the 2023 Three Choirs Festival.

Composition Competition brought to you by Hereford Cathedral Voluntary Choir in association with the Three Choirs Festival and Oxford University Press.

Climate change charity Music Declares Emergency has organised a week-long series of actions and activities designed to ‘turn up the volume’ on its calls for both government action on climate change and a sustainable music industry.

Before I started volunteering, I was an aimless university graduate who had made no real attempt to discover what career path could be right for me (a position I know quite a few others can relate to…)

The Three Choirs Festival has appointed a new Chair to their Board of Directors – Naomi Belshaw becomes the first woman Chair in the Festival’s history. Naomi is taking the place of Dr Timothy Brain OBE who, during a significant tenure as Chair, has seen the professionalisation of the organisation.

Luke Styles marks his 40th birthday year with Tracks in the Orbit, a new saxophone concerto for Iain Ballamy, and Voices of Power for this summer’s Three Choirs Festival.

So how do you represent an organisation like Three Choirs through a logo? This question has been at the forefront of our thoughts over the last few months as we have been working hard on the development of a new website and visual identity for the festival following feedback from you.

75 years ago, in 1946, the Three Choirs Festival was revived in Hereford after a gap of seven years during the Second World War. Much of that year’s festival was carried over from the fully-planned programme for 1939.

The Three Choirs Festival has been awarded funding as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced today.