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He also works as an arranger and editor, most notably (in his youth) of the extraordinarily successful Carols for Choirs anthology series in collaboration with Sir David Willcocks.Īs this composer is still alive, all of his works are still under copyright. In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music. In 1980 he was made an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and in 1988 a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. He still lives near Cambridge, but frequently conducts other choirs and orchestras around the world. In 1981 he founded his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, which he conducts and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works), particularly under his own label Collegium Records. He then read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the choir and then director of music from 1975 to 1979. An excerpt from the Wikipedia article as of 27-07-07:īorn in London, he was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener.
