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ALBUMPeaceful Christmas - PastoraleBrandenburg Consort, Sir Stephen Cleobury, Ensemble Violini Capricciosi, Igor Ruhadze, La Magnifica Comunità, Musica Amphion, Quartet Viotti, Cristiano Porqueddu, Marco Ruggeri, Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomsted, Chiara Minali, Tuija Hakkila, Letizia Calandra, Ilario Nicotra, Jenny Soonjin Kim, L'Arte Dell'Arco, Francesco Galligioni, Roberto Loreggian, Ivano Zanenghi, Bart Van Oort, Mauro Tortorelli, Paolo Bottini, Carlo Guandalino, Laura Farabollini, Manuel Tomadin, Stefano Bagliano, Collegium Pro Musica, Stefano Molardi, Quartetto Di Roma, Jonathan Webb, Davide Bandieri, Alessandra Gentile, Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia, Adriano Falcioni, Luca Fanfoni, Maria Clementi, Lina Uinskyte, Christian Lambour, Markus Brönnimann, Jean-Philippe Vivier, Michael Kleiser, Emanuele Cardi, Francesco Cera, Sandro Ivo Bartoli, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Theodore Kuchar, Filippo Farinelli, Orchestra Città Aperta Wind Ensemble, Musica Poetica, Marco Rapetti, Claudio Maccari, Paolo Pugliese, Jeroen van Veen, Sandra van Veen, Cristina Ariagno, Enrico Casazza, Henk De Graaf, Misha Furman, Itamar Shimon, Joanna Pachucka, Eros Roselli & Fausto Tenzi
Albums by Sir Stephen Cleobury
ALBUMBernstein: Chichester Psalms - Copland: In the BeginningThe Choir of King's College, Cambridge & Sir Stephen Cleobury
ALBUMBruckner: Mass in E Minor, MotetsThe Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir Stephen Cleobury & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
ALBUMBach: St. Matthew PassionThe Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music & Sir Stephen Cleobury
ALBUMA Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary ServiceSir Stephen Cleobury & The Choir of King's College, Cambridge
ALBUMA Boy Was BornThe Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks & Sir Stephen Cleobury
ALBUMHowells: Cello Concerto, An English MassGuy Johnston, Sir Stephen Cleobury, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia & Christopher Seaman
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Artist Biography
Towards the end of Stephen Cleobury’s 37-year term as Director of Music at King’s College, Cambridge, he had become known among peers and critics for both enhancing the college choir’s reputation for excellence and his commitment to contemporary choral music. Born in 1948, Cleobury was a boy chorister at Worcester Cathedral and organ scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge. While he was periodically teased by the clergy at Westminster Cathedral after his appointment in 1979 as the Roman Catholic institution’s first Anglican music master, he had a significant impact on the standards of its choir, as he did at King’s after his arrival in 1982. Cleobury commissioned a new work every year for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, a celebrated annual event at King’s, with leading composers such as Thomas Adès, Harrison Birtwistle, John Rutter, and Judith Weir all contributing. His openness to contemporary repertory, which he also pursued as chief conductor of the BBC Singers, was supported by the quiet efficiency with which he extracted the best from a choir. Cleobury was blessed with an uncanny ability to set speeds that suited voices and allowed choristers to produce clarity, warmth, and abundant emotional expression. His artistry was unassuming yet potent, as was his focused way of working with young choristers and seasoned professionals alike. Knighted for services to choral music, he died less than two months after retiring in September 2019.
Hometown
Bromley, Kent, England
Genre
Classical