Gregorian Chant Network is launched

26 February 2010

A new organisation devoted to the special qualities of Gregorian Chant has just been launched with the support of the Latin Mass Society.

The Gregorian Chant Network will organise training in Gregorian chant and link singers and choirs singing Gregorian chant for the Catholic liturgy, with the support of the Latin Mass Society, Una Voce Scotland, the Association for Latin Liturgy and the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge.

At a meeting at the London Oratory on January 30, 35 chant directors and Gregorian Chant experts met to launch a new association to coordinate and promote Gregorian Chant training initiatives and to facilitate mutual support among Chant scholas. Dr Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society, and Colin Mawby, composer and former Director of Music at Westminster Cathedral, addressed the meeting. It ended with Vespers in the Little Oratory led by Fr Anthony Alexander.