Christopher Robinson

Christopher Robinson offers rightly earned the status among the leading British choral conductors from the next fifty percent of the 20th hundred years. While he continues to be closely recognized with sacred music, he in addition has delved thoroughly into secular functions. His repertory runs from Baroque to modern, but with a made the decision slant toward 20th hundred years English music. The titles Elgar, Britten, Tippett, Maxwell Davies, Berkeley, Howells, Rubbra, Tavener, Walton, along with a spate of additional 20th century English composers occupy an excellent part of his concert applications. Having said that, Robinson can be a grasp interpreter from the choral music of Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Duruflé, Rachmaninov, Poulenc, Messiaen, and several additional non-British composers. Robinson, who frequently kept the dual post of organist and choirmaster, in addition has drawn lavish compliment for his abilities around the body organ. He has made an appearance on a lot more than 50 recordings, mainly as conductor, with several as organist (Saint-Saëns’ Body organ Symphony, for instance) and a few serving both in functions. His recordings can be found on numerous brands, including Naxos, Chandos, Amazing Classics, Hyperion, Nimbus, EMI, Regis, and Guild. Christopher Robinson was created in Britain in 1936. He qualified originally as an organist, providing as an body organ scholar at Christ Chapel, Oxford. He released his profession at Worcester Cathedral, acknowledging the post of organist and get better at from the choristers. While there, Robinson also offered every August as conductor on the Three Choirs Celebration concerts. Upon departing his Worcester Cathedral post, Robinson was appointed organist and choirmaster at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, keeping the positioning until 1991. Robinson shortly accepted another long lasting session, that of conductor of the town of Birmingham Choir, a post he kept from 1964-2002. He got on the concurrent third project, conductor from the Oxford Bach Choir (1976-1987). By 1990 Robinson was perhaps one of the most acclaimed choral conductors in Britain. In 1992 he was presented with the name of Commander from the Victorian Purchase with the Queen for his masterly providers at Windsor Castle. That same season Robinson recognized the post of organist and movie director of music at St. John’s University, Cambridge. This era in his profession noticed a spate of extremely praised recordings, just like the 1993 Hyperion Compact disc Sacred Music by John Tavener, with St. George’s Chapel Choir. Robinson retired from St. John’s University in 2003. Among his significant later recordings may be the 2001 Naxos Compact disc of Nine Tenebrae Motets by Rubbra.