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Sir Stephen John Cleobury CBE (/ ˈ k l iː b ər i / KLEE-bər-ee; 31 December 1948 – 22 November 2019) [1] [2] was an English organist and music director. He worked with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge , where he served as music director from 1982 to 2019, and with the BBC Singers .
Nov 23, 2019 · News has been released of the death of Sir Stephen Cleobury, director of the choir at King’s College Cambridge for almost 40 years. Friends say he had been seriously ill for some time....
Nov 24, 2019 · Heartfelt laments for Sir Stephen Cleobury. Tributes are being posted online for the recently retired director of music at Kings College Cambridge, who died on Friday at the age of 70. Never ...
May 23, 2018 · Following a long illness, Stephen died peacefully in the late evening of 22 November – the feast day of St Cecilia, patron saint of music and musicians – in York, where he had lived since his retirement in September. Stephen was Director of Music at King’s for 37 years and was.
Nov 27, 2019 · Sir Stephen Cleobury, the longtime director of the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, arguably Anglicanism’s most famous ensemble, died on November 22, after a long struggle with cancer. He died on the Feast of St. Cecilia, the patron of church music.
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Sir Stephen was already terminally ill, and our sessions inevitably were punctuated by the need for rest. Yet to sit and remember the details of his musical journey through some of the finest religious institutions of the UK seemed to infuse him with remarkable vigour, despite his undoubted suffering.