Nicholas Cleobury (born 23 June 1950) is an English

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. Cleobury was organ scholar at

Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms was ad ...

, conductor of

Schola Cantorum of Oxford Schola Cantorum of Oxford is the longest running chamber choir of University of Oxford, and one of the longest established and most widely known chamber choirs in the United Kingdom. The conductor is Steven Grahl. The choir was founded in 1960 b ...

and held assistant

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posts at

Chichester Cathedral Chichester Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Chichester. It is located in Chichester, in West Sussex, England. It was founded as a cathedral in 1075, when the seat of th ...

and

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church (, the temple or house, ''wikt:aedes, ædes'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by Henry V ...

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l and

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tic work. He is founder-laureate of the

Britten Sinfonia Britten Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra ensemble based in Cambridge, UK. It was created in 1992, following an initiative from Eastern Arts and a number of key figures including Nicholas Cleobury, who recognised the need for an orchestra in the ...

and has been particularly active in the promotion of

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.Official Nicholas Cleobury website , biography
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Oxford Bach Choir The Oxford Bach Choir is an amateur choir based in Oxford, England. Founded by Basil Harwood in 1896 to further the music of J. S. Bach in Oxford, the Choir merged in 1905 with the Oxford Choral & Philharmonic Society, whose origins can be tr ...

. Cleobury's elder brother

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was director of music at

King's College, Cambridge King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...

. Cleobury joined the Queensland Conservatorium as head of opera in 2016.

References

External links

Nicholas Cleobury web site
(accessed May 2006)

2001 1950 births Living people English male conductors (music) Musicians from the London Borough of Bromley People from Bromley People educated at King's School, Worcester Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford English cathedral organists English classical organists Assistant Organists of Chichester Cathedral Honorary members of the Royal Academy of Music 21st-century English conductors (music) 21st-century English organists 21st-century English male musicians English male classical organists {{UK-conductor-stub