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- Jonathan Peter Willcocks BEM (born 9 January 1953) is an English composer and conductor. Willcocks was born in Worcester, the son of conductor and composer Sir David Willcocks.
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Jonathan Peter Willcocks BEM (born 9 January 1953) is an English composer and conductor. Willcocks was born in Worcester, the son of conductor and composer Sir David Willcocks. He was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, and an Open Music Scholar at Clifton College.
Jonathan is currently Musical Director of the Guildford Choral Society, the Chichester Singers, the Leith Hill Musical Festival and the professional chamber orchestra Southern Pro Musica, and freelance conducting and workshop engagements in recent seasons have taken him to many parts of the world including USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia ...
An active conductor, Jonathan is musical director of two large adult choruses—Portsmouth Choral Union and the Chichester Singers—and of the professional chamber orchestra Southern Pro Musica.
Biography. Jonathan Willcocks was born in Worcester, England, and after early musical training as a chorister at King’s College Cambridge and an Open Music Scholar at Clifton College he took an Honours degree in Music from Cambridge University where he held a choral scholarship at Trinity College.
Worcester-born Jonathan Willcocks trained as a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge, then a degree in Music from Trinity College. His career has combined broad-ranging work as a composer, and with choral and orchestral conducting at engagements across the world, Europe and throughout the UK.
Aug 16, 2020 · Jonathan is currently Musical Director of the Guildford Choral Society, the Chichester Singers, the Leith Hill Musical Festival and the professional chamber orchestra Southern Pro Musica. He’s president of the Petersfield Musical Festival .
Jan 31, 2024 · WILLCOCKS; JONATHAN - Classics Today. Willcocks Choral works. David Vernier. Choral music lovers who enjoy the English cathedral choir sound (of the adult mixed voice variety–no boy trebles, no male altos) and the highly melodic, Continue Reading.