St Pancras Church Music Scholars

St Pancras church is recruiting music scholars

Four singing scholarships (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)

and

One organ & piano scholarship

Music has been at the centre of life at St Pancras Church across its history. We have been the home of London Festival of Contemporary Church Music and we have hosted and supported other religious and secular music in services and in concerts.  We are now please to launch a scholars’ scheme to continue, to enhance and to develop music at St Pancras.

Funding is available for four singing scholarships (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and one organ & piano scholarship for musicians at an early stage in their careers. Scholars will work with the clergy and our Director of Music, Dr. Christopher Batchelor.

Our Singing Scholars sing will every week on Sunday morning and sing at all the church festivals (subject to agreed term and vacation periods)   As St Pancras Church expands its weekly pattern of services, they will also take it in turns (solo or duet) to perform and lead during a weekday (lunchtime or evening) service and at a monthly service on Sunday afternoons. The Organ & Piano scholar will play in church on Sunday mornings twice a month and will perform and accompany singing scholars at other services.

Inaugural scholars will be appointed to train and perform between January 2025 and July 2025.  This initial period will bring the scheme into line with the academic year but, since this is a relatively short period, we will explore with each scholar, in due course, the possibility of extending their appointment into the 2025/2026 academic year before recruiting other scholars for that whole year.

Scholars will each be in receipt of scholarships worth £1,850 for January to July 2025.

We aim for our scholars to have experience of SATB choral singing and also to reflect a wide range of musical backgrounds.  There will be opportunity for scholars to present concerts in the church and, as we develop our programme of lunchtime recitals, we will encourage scholars to participate.

St Pancras Church seeks to be representative of people and communities across society. We actively welcome applications from people who are currently underrepresented in our community, including people with global majority heritage, people with lived experience of poverty and people who identify as LGBTQ+.