Editing Chichester Cathedral (section)

== Music ==
The music at Chichester Cathedral is largely led by the organ and the cathedral choir, as there are services daily and on special days in the calendar. Outside the regular services the cathedral also supports all kinds of music both religious and secular. Visiting choirs, who come from the diocese's parishes and elsewhere, sing in the cathedral from time to time. It is common for guest choirs to sing at [[Evening Prayer (Anglican)|Evensong]] during the week.<ref name="visit1">{{cite web|url= http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/dyn/pages/worship/page_1.shtml|title= Visiting Choir Information|access-date= 15 January 2011|publisher= Chichester Cathedral|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110606234820/http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/dyn/pages/worship/page_1.shtml|archive-date= 6 June 2011|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}</ref>

The cathedral hosts a variety of concerts that, along with those in the evening, includes a popular series of free lunchtime concerts.<ref name="concerts">{{cite web|url=http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/dyn/pages/whats-on/concerts/|title=Concerts|publisher=Chichester Cathedral|access-date=15 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815035246/http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/dyn/pages/whats-on/concerts/|archive-date=15 August 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> It provides a venue for visiting artists from across the world as well as those who are locally based, such as the Chichester Singers, who although an independent organisation, have since their formation in 1954, performed all their major concerts in the cathedral.<ref name="concerts" /><ref name="venue1">{{cite web|url=http://www.chichestertickets.co.uk
|title= Events at Chichester Cathedral|access-date= 15 January 2011|publisher= Chichester Cathedral}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chichester.co.uk/entertainments/REVIEW-Chichester-Singers-Chichester-Cathedral.6151451.jp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724031326/http://www.chichester.co.uk/entertainments/REVIEW-Chichester-Singers-Chichester-Cathedral.6151451.jp |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 July 2012 |title=REVIEW: Chichester Singers, Chichester Cathedral |author=John Wheatley |date=15 March 2010 |work=Chichester Observer |access-date=13 September 2010 }}</ref>

=== Organs and organists ===
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{{Main|Organs and organists of Chichester Cathedral}}
There has been organ music at Chichester Cathedral almost continuously since the medieval period, with a break during the Commonwealth. There are now five pipe organs of different sizes and styles at Chichester Cathedral, with pipes of the Main Organ dating to the [[English Restoration|Restoration]], the Hurd Organ to the late 18th century and the three most recent organs, the Nave Organ, the Walker Organ, which is a small portable organ in the Baroque style, and the Allen Organ, an early example of a digital electronic organ, dating to the late 20th century.

Several well-known composers, including [[Thomas Weelkes]] and [[John Reading (composer and organist)|John Reading]], have served as cathedral organist. [[Anne Maddocks]] (assistant organist, 1942–1949) was the first woman in the country to hold such a post in a cathedral, and [[Sarah Baldock]] (organist and master of the choristers, 2008–2014) was the second woman to hold the most senior musical post in a Church of England cathedral.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=51355|title=Quiet revolution in the south}}</ref>

The current [[organist and master of the choristers]] is [[Charles Harrison (musician)|Charles Harrison]]. The assistant organist is [[Timothy Ravalde]].

=== Cathedral choir ===
{{Main|Choir of Chichester Cathedral}}
Chichester Cathedral Choir consists of eighteen choristers and four probationers, all of whom are educated at the [[Prebendal School]] (which sits adjacent to the Cathedral precinct and is the Cathedral Choir School), and six lay vicars, who are professional musicians.

During school term the cathedral choir sing at eight services each week. As well as singing, choristers learn the piano and an orchestral instrument, spending at least eighteen hours a week on musical performance.<ref name="CC" />

The choir regularly tours abroad and in recent years has visited France and Northern Bavaria (Bamberg, Bayreuth, Nuremberg and Würzburg) and makes frequent visits to Chartres. In 2005, the choir made a tour to South Africa.<ref name="CC" />