Easter at King's
In the twentieth century the name of King’s College became inextricably entwined with the celebration of Christmas across the English-speaking world. The twenty-first century has seen the very welcome and appropriate balancing of this through the inception, success and growth of Easter at King’s: a festival of concerts and recitals for Holy Week and Easter.
Easter at King's
Explore below full details of services and concerts during Holy Week and Easter. Tickets for concerts are now available from the box office.
Easter at King's 2026: Concerts
J S Bach: St Matthew Passion
Iestyn Davies Countertenor
Mary Bevan Soprano
Robert Murray Evangelist
Gwilym Bowen Tenor
Neal Davies Bass
Matthew Brook Christus
BBC Singers
The Choir of King's College
Academy of Ancient Music
Daniel Hyde Conductor
Recorded for deferred broadcast by BBC Radio 3
Good Friday Concert
Wagner Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Poulenc Four Lenten Motets
Duruflé Requiem, Op. 9
Katherine Gregory Mezzo Soprano
Gareth Brynmor John Baritone
The Bach Choir
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill Conductor
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Holy Week and Easter Services
MAUNDY THURSDAY 2 April
5.30pm, Holy Eucharist with Stripping of the Altar
Walton Missa brevis
Duruflé Ubi caritas
Duruflé Tantum ergo (Aquinas)
Sermon The Chaplain
GOOD FRIDAY 3 April
10.30am, Liturgy of Good Friday
Lloyd Were you there?
Byrd Responses to the Commandments
Victoria St John Passion
King John IV of Portugal Crux fidelis (Fortunatus)
Victoria Popule meus
Lotti Crucifixus à8
5.30pm
Evensong sung by the choral scholars and lay clerks
This service is not open to the public.
EASTER DAY, Sunday 5 April
10.30am, Holy Eucharist
Victoria Missa ‘Simile est regnum’
arr. Wood This joyful Eastertide (Woodward)
Taverner Dum transisset Sabbatum
Sermon The Dean
3.30pm, Festal Evensong broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
arr. Wood This joyful Eastertide
Radcliffe Responses
Wood Collegium Regale
Elgar Light out of darkness