Bob Chilcott has been involved in choral music for most of his
life. He was a chorister and choral scholar at King’s College,
Cambridge, and for twelve years was a member of the vocal group
The King’s Singers. Since 1997 he has worked as a full-time
composer and has written a wide variety of choral music, including
a significant amount of music for young choirs. He has over one
hundred pieces published by Oxford University Press, and a number
of his choral works have been published in German, Swedish, Norwegian,
and Slovenian.
As well as being Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers,
he has conducted many other leading choirs in their field, including
the World Youth Choir, the RIAS Kammerchor, Orphei Drangar from
Sweden, Jauna Musika from Lithuania, the Taipei Chamber Singers,
and the Tower New Zealand Youth Choir. He has worked in 23 countries
on six continents, and at festivals from Festival 500 in Newfoundland
to Tallinn, where in 2004, as the first foreign musician to be
invited, he conducted a choir of 7000 young singers at the Estonian
Song Festival in one of his most popular pieces, “Can
you hear me?”. |
