Oct 19 2009
Winchester Uni graduation ceremonies
More than 1,200 students from the University of Winchester will graduate during five ceremonies held in Winchester Cathedral on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (October 21-23).
There will also be nine honorary graduates.
The Chancellor of the University, Dame Mary Fagan Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, will preside.
Each ceremony includes a musical interlude performed by students, graduates, staff and friends who are members of the University’s choirs, and the Graduation Hymn, which will be sung at all the afternoon ceremonies, written for the occasion by the Reverend Professor June Boyce-Tillman.
Sing Our Hearts Out (SOHO) is directed by Samuel Cousins, a Winchester graduate and they will perform Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddie Mercury. The King Alfred Singers are performing Chanting for Peace, written and conducted by Professor June Boyce-Tillman, and The Lord is my Shepherd written by Schubert, also conducted by the Professor Boyce-Tillman.
The S.O.N.G – The Sounds of New Gospel will perform Songbird by Christine McVie, arranged by the choir director Hannah Williams, a Winchester graduate, and Birdsong in the Dark, written by Hannah.
Those receiving honorary degrees are: Pie Corbett, an educational writer, editor and poet; Jack Dee, actor, comedian and writer; Sir David Frost, veteran broadcaster; Bevis Hillier an English art historian, author and journalist; Richard Hoare founder the Bulldog Trust in 1983; Daniel Hodson former member of the University of Winchester Board of Governors from 2000-2008; Simon Keyes, director of St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London; Jonathon Porritt, leading environmentalist, writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development; and Sir Terry Pratchett, creator of the bestselling Discworld series.
