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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-02-06 10:47:55
Oxford University names new organist
Steven Grahl is the new Organist at Christ Church Cathedral, succeeding Stephen Darlington, who has served for 32 years. Grahl also joins the Faculty of Music in the University in ‘significant roles’. Steven Grahl has been Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral since 2014. He is also Conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford, and President of the […]
2017-12-16 00:00:00
The Annual Christmas Post 2017
[…] 110, BWV 151, BWV 63 Ricercar Consort Philippe Pierlot - direction Label: Mirare MIR243 Recorded November 2012 Courtesy of member Aart [flacs & scans] Download Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata, Preludia, Chorals, Fughetten on Advent- and Christmas Songs Lorenzo Ghielmi - organist Ahrend organ, Milano Label: DHM 05472 77278 2 Recorded May 1992 [flacs & scans] Download Johann Sebastian Bach Magnificat BWV 243, Cantata BWV 82 Schola Cantorum of Oxford Jeremy Summerly - direction Northern Chamber Orchestra Nicholas Ward - direction Label: Naxos 8.550763 Recorded Dec 1993 & March 1994 [flacs & scans] Download Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Göttlichs Kind - Music for Advent & Christmas Susanne Rydén and other vocalists solistenensemble stimmkunst & Ensemble 94 Kay Johannsen - direction Label: Carus 83.180 (© 2005) Courtesy of Thomas Cadfael [flacs & scans] Download […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-05-21 20:39:52
Oxford replaces Boston’s new chief
Schola Cantorum of Oxford has named Steven Grahl as conductor from the 2017-18 season. Grahl is Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral. Before that he spent seven years as Assistant Organist at New College, Oxford. Daniel Mahoney has been appointed Conducting Fellow. The pair succeed James Burton who is leaving after 15 years to become Choral Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-02-03 00:42:07
[…] is a wonderful privilege, and I am very much looking forward to starting work. Born in London, Burton began his training at the choir of Westminster Abbey, where he became head chorister. He was a choral scholar at St. John’s College Cambridge, and holds a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Frederik Prausnitz and Gustav Meier. Since 2002 he has been music director of the chamber choir Schola Cantorum of Oxford. From then until 2009 he served also as choral director at the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester England, where he was music director of the Hallé Choir and founding conductor of the Hallé Youth Choir, winning the Gramophone Choral Award. He returned to Manchester in 2014, preparing the choirs for what would become another Gramophone-nominated recording—Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony. Burton’s extensive choral conducting has included guest invitations from many highly regarded professional […]
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