Bob Chilcott

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

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

Chilcott is known for his compositions for children's choirs, including Can You Hear Me? , Which he conducted in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Estonia, Latvia, Germany and the Czech Republic. It is connected with the New Orleans Children's Chorus and the Crescent City Festival in New Orleans, for which he composed the works of 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 choir festival in New Orleans in 2006, which was canceled after Hurricane Katrina. The work was finally premiered on 25 June 2007 in the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans of 210 singers from across the United States.

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

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