Nigel Short

Versatile musician Nigel Brief is probably most widely known because the conductor and founder from the a cappella chamber choir Tenebrae. Brief launched his profession like a soloist in opera and oratorio, while also performing in a variety of choirs, just like the Tallis Scholars as well as the King’s Performers, with whom he offered mainly because countertenor for seven years. Like a vocalist Brief developed a pastime in sacred music, from pre-Renaissance to contemporary, and his repertory in opera and oratorio was also quite wide. Since 2001, when Tenebrae was created, Brief has concentrated the ensemble’s repertory primarily on sacred music, which range from the functions of Hildegard to modern items by Tavener, Talbot, and many more. But he prospects his ensemble in lots of traditional and Xmas songs, in addition to large-scale Classical works together with orchestra by Mozart, Berlioz, Poulenc, among others. In such repertory Brief and Tenebrae possess performed and documented with such ensembles because the Chamber Orchestra of European countries as well as the London Symphony Orchestra. Brief has used the ensemble on tour through the entire U.K., Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, as well as the U.S. He is able to be heard like a vocalist in many from the King’s Performers recordings from 1994-2001 on such brands as EMI and RCA. Because the movie director of Tenebrae he offers documented for Signum UK, LSO Live, and Warner Classics. Nigel Brief was created in Solihull, Britain, on August 16, 1965. He sang like a chorister at Solihull Parish Chapel and later on enrolled in the Royal University of Music in London, where he analyzed tone of voice and piano. While Brief freelanced in opera and concerto and offered as an associate from the Tallis Scholars in his early profession, he also sang in huge church choirs, 1st at Westminster Abbey and at Westminster Cathedral. Following the seven-year stint using the King’s Performers, Brief took a short hiatus and founded Tenebrae (2001). Among Short’s early successes with Tenebrae was along with his structure The Imagine Herod (2002), for baritone, body organ, and choir. The task was released on Compact disc in 2003 by Signum UK, alongside Xmas and traditional tunes, in addition to functions by Peter Wishart, Howells, Gruber, among others. Brief commissioned Uk composer Joby Talbot to create Path of Wonders, which Tenebrae premiered with great achievement in 2005. Among Short’s later on recordings may be the 2009 Signum UK Compact disc, What Sweeter Music: Tunes & Carols for Xmas.