BBC Singers - Conductors |
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 David Hill - Chief Conductor
David Hill is currently Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers, Music Director of the Bach Choir, and Music Director of the Leeds Philharmonic Society. He is also Chief Conductor of the Southern Sinfonia. Educated at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists at the age of 17. He was Organ Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Music from 2004 to 2007. His other appointments have included Master of the Music at the cathedrals of Winchester and Westminster, and Artistic Director of the Philharmonia Chorus.
He has conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, as well as the orchestras and choruses of Welsh National Opera and Opera North, the Netherlands Radio Choir and the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin. He made his BBC Proms debut in the world premiere of Sir John Tavener’s Song of the Cosmos in 2001.
Recent engagements include concerts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Among his future plans are appearances with the Minnesota Orchestra and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.
His extensive and wide-ranging discography features more than 50 recordings. Recent discs of Finzi and Howells with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Bach Choir have received critical acclaim. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Southampton.
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 Stephen Cleobury - Conductor Laureate
Stephen Cleobury is the Conductor Laureate of the BBC Singers, Organist and Director of Music at King’s College, Cambridge, and conductor of the orchestra and chorus of the Cambridge University Musical Society. He received his early musical education at Worcester Cathedral, and was later Organ Student at St John’s College, Cambridge. He was then successively Organist at St Matthew’s, Northampton, Sub-Organist at Westminster Abbey and Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral.
His work with the BBC Singers includes studio recordings and concerts across a range of repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. He has recorded five CDs with the BBC Singers – of music by Charles Ives, Richard Strauss and Giles Swayne, a disc of Renaissance music and Illuminare: Carols for a New Millennium. Recent collaborations with the BBC Singers have included concerts in Tallinn, Cambridge, Belfast and London.
Click here to read an interview with Stephen Cleobury
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 Bob Chilcott - Principal Guest Conductor
Bob Chilcott has been involved in choral music for most of his life, as a boy chorister and choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, and as a member of the vocal group The King’s Singers for twelve years. Over the past seven years he has poured his energy into the amateur choir world as a composer, conductor and choral clinician, with an emphasis on work with and for young singers.
Bob is equally active in the professional choral world. He is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers, working with them both in the recording studio and on the concert platform. Highlights of the past year included a concert in the South Bank Centre’s international choral festival WorldVoice, and a performance of Brahms’ German Requiem in the rarely-performed version with accompaniment for piano duet. In 2004, as well as undertaking a major project with the Taipei Chamber Singers, he also made his debut with the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin as part of the “Zeitfenster” Festival.
Click here to read an article by Bob Chilcott
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 Andrew Carwood - Principal Guest Conductor
Andrew Carwood trained as a choral scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, a lay clerk at Christ Church, Oxford, and Westminster Cathedral before holding the post of Director of Music at the Brompton Oratory in London for five years.
In 2007 he was appointed Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral in London – the first non-organist to hold the post since the 12th century. He is also a Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers and has recently appeared with the City of London Sinfonia, the London Mozart Players and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
As a conductor his reputation was established with The Cardinall's Musick (founded in 1989) and together they continue to perform throughout Europe. The group has won three Gramophone Awards as wells as many other European plaudits. Andrew Carwood has become an acknowledged expert on the music of the 16th and 17th centuries.
At St Paul's he directs the world-famous choir of men and boys for the daily liturgies of the Cathedral, special services of national importance, recordings, tours and concert appearances. The foundation is lavish, with 30 choristers and 18 professional singers performing a wide repertoire, from the Renaissance to the present day, and including works with orchestra. |
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