Carols for Choirs 5: Fifty Christmas Carols

About

David Blackwell studied music at Edinburgh University then pursued a career in music publishing first at ABRSM and then at Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of OUP's In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5 and has published a number of single choral arrangements. He is co-writer with his wife Kathy of OUP's award-winning string series Fiddle/Viola/Cello Time which have twice won the MIA award for Best Educational Publication. Bob Chilcott has become one of the world's most widely performed composers and arrangers of choral music. His compositional output reflects his wide taste in music styles and his commitment to writing music that is both singable and communicative. He has been involved in choral music most of his life he was a chorister and then a choral scholar in the choir of King's College Cambridge and was a member of the British vocal group The King's Singers for whom he made a number of popular arrangements of well-known songs from all genres. As well as being a full-time composer he is also a highly acclaimed choral conductor. He has been privileged to conduct many choirs all over the world. He is Principal Guest Conductor of The BBC Singers and in 2019 he was appointed Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers. His music has been widely recorded by many choirs and groups including The King's Singers Tenebrae and The BBC Singers.