Simon Brown was the director of music at King's College School in Cambridge from 1999-2014. and was the director of King's Voices from 2001 to 2013. He was a choral scholar in King's College Choir in the late 1970s, and since then has sung in the choirs of

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and Her Majesty's Chapels Royal (St James' Palace). His teaching career began at Bradford Grammar School in Yorkshire, and was followed by 12 years as Head of Academic and Choral Music at the

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. His time at the Purcell School included conducting the youngest ever choir to sing Tallis' 40-part choral work ''

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''. Brown's work with King's Voices included evensongs in chapel on Mondays in full term, visits to

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and

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, and tours to Venice, Florence, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Copenhagen, Bologna, Rome, Malta, Barcelona, Toulouse and Berlin. Simon is a keen composer (the introit ''Thee We Adore, O Hidden Saviour, Thee'' was premiered on

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's ''Choral Evensong'' in 2006 and his new carol ''There is no rose'' was sung in the Advent Procession at York Minster in 2011) and enjoys playing many instruments including recorder, viola, clarinet and harp and he has an ABRSM Grade 8 Qualification on all wind and string instruments of the symphony orchestra as well as he piano. From 2015 to 2022, Brown was Director of Chapel Music at

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