Sixty-five years ago, Bob Chilcott was submerged in the cockpit of a shattered B-24 bomber that had smacked into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Malta. “We took a hit over Sicily,” Chilcott ...
Budleigh Music Festival has revealed its new patron, one of the UK’s best loved composers and choral directors, Bob Chilcott. Described as a ’contemporary hero of British choral music', Bob was ...
The St. John the Divine Chorale with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra Ensemble offers the Houston premiere of St. John Passion by Bob Chilcott within the context of a Good Friday service. Chilcott, ...
Peterborough’s award-winning women’s choir Peterborough Voices will welcome leading British choral conductor and composer Bob Chilcott to Peterborough for an upper voices choral workshop on Saturday, ...
Of all the settings of The Passion of Christ, the St John Passion by Bob Chilcott is probably the most personal; it speaks to the listener directly, not just through the words, but also through the ...
As a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge, a young Bob Chilcott quickly became familiar with some of the greatest Requiem settings in the choral repertoire – notably those by Fauré and Duruflé, and ...
The opportunity to hear some of Bob Chilcott’s music performed live is always one to be relished, but never more so than when the work is conducted by the composer himself. So the Burford Singers’ ...
Thrilling: “No one voice is the same, so when we all sing together, the energy is like nothing on earth,” says Bob. And he should know. This passionate composer of choral works is high on the prospect ...
Bob Chilcott has two passions – music and people. Throughout his distinguished career as a choral composer and conductor, those two passions have been inextricably entwined. “I’m a social musician so ...