Stephen Cleobury

Although Stephen Cleobury (pronounced “clow-bury,” the very first syllable rhyming with how) has spent his career as an organist and director of British cathedral and college choirs, activities associated primarily with extremely outdated music, he has lengthy shown a committed action to quite songs, aswell. Cleobury got an early on begin in music being a youngster chorister at Worcester Cathedral, after that studied body organ and choral music under George Visitor, David Willcocks, among others at St. John’s University, Cambridge. Called sub-organist at Westminster Abbey in 1974, Cleobury provided the premiere of Malcolm Williamson’s The Lion of Suffolk at Benjamin Britten’s memorial program in 1976. This is Cleobury’s initial high-profile reference to completely new music, an association he’d maintain with the arriving years. In 1979 Cleobury was appointed grasp of music at Westminster Cathedral, and in 1982 he put into his responsibilities music movie director at King’s University, Cambridge. Out of this placement, he could commission a fresh Christmas carol each year for King’s College’s Event of Nine Lessons and Carols (frequently broadcast internationally). As movie director from the Cambridge University or college Musical Culture from 1983 to 2009, he carried out the first shows of functions by Robin Holloway and Robert Saxton. This encounter place him in great stead when he was called principal conductor from the flexible BBC Performers in 1995 (getting conductor laureate in 2007); that 12 months he also became a going to professor in the Royal Conservatory of Music. Cleobury offers produced many recordings like a choral movie director so when an organist, frequently discovering the less-traveled edges from the repertory, and his choral plans are trusted. His younger sibling is usually orchestral conductor Nicholas Cleobury.