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Christopher Bowers-Broadbent is an English organist and composer.
Biography
He was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and went on to study organ and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was taught by Arnold Richardson and Richard Rodney Bennett. His made his debut at the Camden Festival in 1966; his first major recitals were at the St Albans International Organ Festival in 1969 and the Royal Festival Hall in 1971. His first appearance as a soloist was at the Proms in 1972. He was a Fellow and Professor of Organ at the Royal Academy of Music from 1973 to 1992, where his students included Kevin Bowyer.
He has recorded CDs as an organist, and with the Hilliard Ensemble. He has also appeared with Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices. Arvo Pärt's Puzzle was written for him in celebration of his birthday. He has composed a great deal of vocal music, as well as instrumental and orchestral works.
He holds two posts in London: organist and choirmaster of Gray's Inn, one of the four Inns of Court, and organist at the West London Synagogue. This allows him the use of their Harrison & Harrison and Mander organs.
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent is the father of musician Harry Broadbent.
Compositions
Choral
1968 Four Lovescapes' Canticles' (E.E. Cummings)1972 Worthy is the Lamb Cantata1974 The Hollow Man (T.S. Eliot)1975 Rhymes without Reason four songs (Mervyn Peake)1976 The Story of Cars a short cantata1978 Deo Gratias a motet1981 The Quarry a short cantata (W.H. Auden)1989 Jubilate-Cantate1999 Holy Communion service for Gray's Inn Canticles
Evening Canticles
1968 Festal setting1968 Lenten setting1976 in Two Parts1988 Ex-St Pancras Morning Canticles
1972 Te Deum (ICET text)1975 Te Deum1971 Short communion service1973 Communion Service (Series III text)1981 A New Benedicite (Leonard Clark) Anthems
1965 2 Short Motets1966 Brief life1968 No time ago1968 Offer your very selves1968 Into this world of sorrow1969 Virgin Born1969 Music to Hear1969 Pleasure it is1969 The way to Life1970 Pater noster1970 Except the Lord1970 Let thy merciful ears1971 I thank you God1976 The grace of God1977 There is water in the river1995 Yiheyu leratson1994 The Elixir1994 Hail bright Cecilia1996 Since I1997 Hashivenu1997 Office Hymns1997 All praise1997 Az Yashir Mosheh (The Song of Moses) Christmas music
1963/1970 Sleep Holy Babe1965 Matin Responsory1971 A spotless rose1973 There is no rose1977 If Christ were born in Camden (A.F. Bayly)1978 If Christ were born in London1984 A Christmas Litany (Fred Kaan)1985 A Christmas Song (Laurence Housman)1991 Angelus ad Virginem1999 As with gladness2002 Alleluia: A new work is come on hand Instrumental
1966 Dialogue and Controversy for brass and organ1967 Serenatas for oboe1967 Dogmas for brass quartet and timpani1968 Duo for flute and violin1970 3 Duets for flute1970 Fantasia for lute1975 Little Concerto for oboe and string orchestra1979 Piece for E-flat clarinet2000 A Ship bound for Tarshish for chamber orchestra2001 The Song at the Sea for organ, strings and timpani Organ
1964 Variations1966 Four Diversions1968 Six Pieces1968 Serenata1994 PreluDDe1996 Media vita - a sequence of short pieces1996 Duets and canons - a sequence of short pieces (recorded by Kevin Bowyer)1997 Ya Shema2000 Organ Notebook 12002 7 Words - a piece in 7 movements Chamber operas
1972 The Pied Piper (a children's opera) - libretto by Jeremy Hornsby1979 The Seacock Bane (for teenagers) - libretto by Tony Vincent Isaacs1982 The Last Man (a comic opera) - libretto by Tony Vincent Isaacs Songs and incidental music
1969 The Becauseway a play by Wesley Burrowes1971 And All The People Rejoiced a play by Wesley Burrowes1982 The Three Brothers a story for shadow puppets by Jessica Souhami
