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 Brian Kay Brian Kay divides his working life between the broadcasting studio and the concert platform. He presents over 100 radio programmes each year, including Brian Kay's Light Programme on BBC Radio 3, and Radio 2's long-running series, Friday Night is Music Night. He has also presented Classics with Kay for BBC World Service, and for the home networks, The Tingle Factor, the Radio 2 Arts Programme, Comparing Notes, Music in mind and Mainly for Pleasure. His television presentations have included the competitions to find the Cardiff Singer of the World and the Choir of the Year. In 1996 he won the Sony Radio Award as Music Presenter of the Year. Brian is much in demand as a conductor, especially of choral music. For ten years he was chorus master of the renowned Huddersfield Choral Society, and conductor of the Cheltenham Bach Choir. He is a frequent guest conductor in this country and abroad; current appointments include the vice-presidency of the Association of British Choral Directors, and he is conductor of the Leith Hill Music Festival, which was started by the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. As well as appearing as narrator in repertoire as diverse as Peter and the Wolf and Bliss's Morning Heroes, Brian is well remembered as the bass in the King's Singers, with whom he made countless recordings, and live concert appearances all over the world. He sang the voice of Papageno in the Hollywood movie Amadeus (his wife, the soprano Gillian Fisher, sang Papagena); Brian has been the lowest frog on a Paul McCartney single, and a member of the backing group for Pink Floyd! |
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