Choral Music by Bob Chilcott

• The Making of the Drum;
• Gourds and Rattles;
• The Gong-Gong;
• My Prayer;
• Advent Antiphons: O Sapientia, O Adonaï, O Radix Jesse, O Clavis David, O Oriens, O Rex gentium, O Emmanuel;
• The Shepherd's Carol;
• And Every Stone Shall Cry;
• Pange Lingua;
• The Modern Man I Sing;
• The Runner;
• The Last Invocation;
• One's-Self I Sing;
• Beach;
• Simple Pictures of Tomorrow;
• Weather Report

Bob Chilcott has been involved in choral music for most of his life. He was a chorister and choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and for twelve years was a member of The King's Singers. Since 1997 he has worked as a full-time composer and has written a wide variety of choral music, including a significant amount of music for young choirs. As well as being Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers, he has conducted many other leading choirs in their field, including the World Youth Choir, the RIAS Kammerchor. Orphei Drangar from Sweden, Jauna Musika from Lithuania, the Taipei Chamber Singers and the Tower New Zealand Youth Choir. He has worked in 23 countries on six continents, and at festivals from Festival 500 in Newfoundland to Tallinn, where in 2004, as the first foreign musician to be invited, he conducted a choir of 7000 young singers at the Estonian Song Festival in one of his most popular pieces, Can you hear me?

Established in 1924, the BBC Singers have grown from a small group, singing in the broadcast daily act of worship on the Home Service, into a virtuoso 24-voice ensemble, forming the UK's only full-time professional chamber choir. The Singers' versatility and breadth of repertoire make the group a vital resource in the broadcast music-making of the BBC and a major force in British concert life. The group's particular expertise in contemporary repertoire has led to creative relationships with some of the most important conductors and composers including Britten, Boulez and Sir Harrison Birtwistle. The BBC Singers also perform regularly with a wide range of period-instrument and contemporary-music ensembles. The choir's outreach work includes regular collaborations across the country with school children, youth choirs and the amateur choral community, as well as with tomorrow's young professionals - composers, singers and conductors.