自成立以来的五个多世纪里，剑桥大学国王学院推出了第一个全女性合唱团。

剑桥大学国王学院将在其历史上首次建立一个全女性合唱团。新的合唱团预计将于明年开始，将与世界著名的国王学院合唱团和混合声部国王之声合唱团并肩作战，后者成立于 1997 年，旨在为女性提供机会。

据《泰晤士报》报道，大学报纸《Varsity》最近刊登了该学院新任音乐助理总监、澳大利亚指挥家和作曲家欧文·埃尔斯利的招聘广告，称该职位的核心职责是“追求全女性室内乐团的发展……活跃于[现有]教堂服务之外的剧目和表演”。

国王学院合唱团成立于 15 世纪，以其电视广播和录音而闻名。妇女和女孩将继续被排除在合唱团之外，这引起了一些人的批评。

学生们于 2022 年成立了国王妇女和边缘化性别 (KWMG) 合唱团。KWMG 联合创始人 Lucy Gabb 当时告诉《Varsity》，“最终，必须允许妇女和女孩进入 [原来的 KCC]”。

她形容新乐团如果只是维持“精英主义、选择性传统”，“真的令人失望”。

国王学院尚未就新合唱团发表完整的官方声明。

Over five centuries since its founding, King’s College, Cambridge is introducing its first all-female choral ensemble.King’s College, Cambridge is to establish an all-female choir for the first time in its history.The new ensemble, expected to begin next year, will sit alongside the world-famous King’s College Choir and the mixed-voice King’s Voices, which was set up in 1997 in order to give women a go.

The Times reported that a recent job advert in the university newspaper Varsity for the college’s new assistant director of music, Australian conductor and composer Owen Elsley, stated that a core responsibility of the post would be “to pursue the development of an all-female chamber group … active in repertoire and performance outside and beyond the [existing] chapel services”.Founded in the 15th century, Kings College Choir is well known for its TV broadcasts and recordings. Women and girls will continue to be excluded from this choir, something that has drawn criticism from some parts.

Students set up the King’s Women and Marginalised Genders (KWMG) choir in 2022. KWMG co-founder Lucy Gabb told Varsity at the time that “ultimately, women and girls must be allowed into [the original KCC]”.She described the new ensemble as “really disappointing” if it simply maintains “elitist, selective traditions”.King’s has yet to issue a full official statement about the new choir.