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The coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

The service will be directed by Andrew Nethsingha, Organist and Master of the Choristers of Westminster Abbey, and will feature the expanded choral forces of the Choir of Westminster Abbey and the Choir of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, girl choristers from Truro Cathedral and Methodist College, Belfast, joined by singers from the Monteverdi Choir. The organ will be played by Sub-Organist, Westminster Abbey, Peter Holder, and Assistant Organist, Westminster Abbey, Matthew Jorysz. A series of fanfares marking ceremonial moments in the service has been specially written for the occasion by Christopher Robinson, and will be performed by the Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Air Force, conducted by Wing Commander Piers Morrell. The Ascension Choir will also perform and The King’s Scholars of Westminster School will proclaim the traditional ‘Vivat’ acclamations. At the request of His Majesty, and in tribute to his late father His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek Orthodox music will also feature in the service performed by the Byzantine Chant Ensemble.

His Majesty the King has personally commissioned the new music and has shaped and selected the musical programme for the service. Paul Mealor’s ‘Coronation Kyrie’ marks the first Welsh language performance at a Coronation, and will be sung by bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel and the Choir of Westminster Abbey. There will also be newly commissioned music by Debbie Wiseman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Roxanna Panufnik and Tarik O’Regan, as well as music that has historically featured in the service over the past four centuries including music by William Byrd, George Frideric Handel, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Henry Walford Davies, Sir William Walton, Sir Hubert Parry and Ralph Vaughan Williams.