Bob Chilcott

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Bob Chilcott

Robert "Bob" Chilcott (born April 9, 1955 in Plymouth ) is a British composer, choir director and singer.

Chilcott sang in the Choir of King's College , Cambridge , both as a boy and as a student. In a 1967 recording of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem under David Willcocks , he sang the solo Pie Jesu as a boy soprano . He joined the King's Singers in 1985 and was tenor of them for 12 years . He has been a freelance composer since 1997.

In 2003 he set the “Irish Blessing” to music for choir and piano.

Chilcott is known for his compositions for children's choirs, including Can You Hear Me ?, which he has conducted in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Estonia, Latvia, Germany and the Czech Republic. He is associated with the New Orleans Children's Choir and the New Orleans Crescent City Festival, for which he composed Jazz Mass, Happy Land, This Day, Be Simple Little Children, and for the 2009 festival, I Lift My Eyes .

Chilcott wrote This Day, a setting of five poems, originally for the 2006 New Orleans Choir Festival , which was canceled after Hurricane Katrina . The work was finally premiered on June 25, 2007 in St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans by 210 singers from all over the United States.

His cantata for choir and percussion, The Making of the Drum , has been performed by the BBC Singers, the New Zealand Youth Choir, the Chamber Choir of Europe and the Taipei Chamber Singers. Chilcott wrote two major sacred works, Canticals of Light and Jubilate . The Addison Singers performed Canticals of Light in London in 2004 and Jubilate in both London and Carnegie Hall in 2005 . In 2008 Oxford University Press published his Aesop's Fables for SATB and piano ("The Hare and the Tortoise"; "The Mountain in Labor"; "The Fox and the Grapes"; "North Wind and the Sun"; "The Goose.") and the Swan ").

Chilcott was the choir director at the Royal College of Music in London for seven years and is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers. Chilcott's Requiem was premiered on March 13, 2010 at the Sheldonian Theater in Oxford by the Oxford Bach Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , conducted by Nicholas Cleobury . Chilcott conducted the world premiere of On Christmas Night on December 12, 2010 at the Christian Church, University of Austin, Texas. On Christmas Night it had its Scottish premiere on December 14, 2011 at Usher Hall in Edinburgh by the Dollar Academy Combined School Choirs.

In 2013 his St. John Passion appeared, the “St. John Passion ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bob Chilcott choralconnections.com
  2. ↑ Bob Chilcott - Addison Singers' President
  3. ^ Bob Chilcott Requiem world première Oxford University press
  4. ^ Nicola Lisle: A new Requiem by Bob Chilcott. In: The Oxford Times . March 4, 2010, archived from the original on March 24, 2012 ; accessed on January 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Bob Chilcott / On Christmas Night Oxford University press
  6. ^ Dollar Academy Christmas Concert. Dollar Academy, December 14, 2011, archived from the original on October 19, 2014 ; accessed on January 10, 2018 .

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SURNAME Chilcott, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chilcott, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English composer, arranger, choir director and singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Plymouth