Sawston Village College is a co-educational comprehensive school founded in 1930 by educational visionary, Henry Morris. It was the first of Cambridgeshire’s Village College schools which Morris believed should be at the heart of their communities and which should offer opportunities to all for life-long learning. Sawston is proud of its musical tradition and of its choral work in particular. Four choirs—girls, boys, and mixed—rehearse and perform regularly.

The school was first invited by Stephen Cleobury to provide children’s voices for a Cambridge University Musical Society performance of Berlioz Te Deum in the 1990’s and, since then, has been privileged to take part in a number of memorable collaborations including performances of Mahler Eighth Symphony in Ely Cathedral and the Royal Albert Hall, and a recording of Alexander Goehr Death of Moses.