JONATHAN WILLCOCKS

Developing from his early experience as a chorister at King’s College and as a choral scholar at Trinity College Cambridge, Jonathan Willcocks’s career has embraced a broad spectrum of conducting work and he is also prominent as a widely published composer.

In addition to his work over the past 29 years with the Chichester Singers, he is also Conductor and Musical Director of the Portsmouth Choral Union and the Southern Pro Musica.  Freelance conducting engagements take him to many parts of the world - especially Canada and the USA, where he will be returning this year to conduct concerts at music festivals, including further appearances in Carnegie Hall in New York.

Jonathan’s compositions encompass large-scale orchestral scores and chamber music, in addition to the many choral works published principally by Oxford University Press, Lorenz (USA) and Prime Music. There are now many recordings of his music, including three CDs issued by Priory Records devoted entirely to his choral music and two Prime Music CDs of his works for children’s choirs.

During the past year there were performances on both sides of the Atlantic of his new work A Great and Glorious Victory, which was commissioned by Portsmouth Choral Union to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar.   The Chichester Singers performed this work on 9th March 2008.

He has continued an active involvement in music education since 1989, as Director of the Junior Academy, Royal Academy of Music in London.

For further information about Jonathan Willcocks, visit http://www.jonathanwillcocks.com