JAMES WHITBOURN

James Whitbourn has an international reputation as a composer of choral music and of music for television films and concert hall. After studying music at Magdalen College, Oxford University, he began his career in the BBC, a background which helped shape his compositional style with its direct connection with performers and audiences worldwide. His largest-scale choral work, Annelies, sets words from The Diary of Anne Frank, and was premièred in its orchestral scoring by Leonard Slatkin at London’s Cadogan Hall and in the chamber version by violinist Daniel Hope. His dance score Luminosity was received with wide critical acclaim and recorded on his first Naxos CD (8.572103). Television work includes the lush orchestral score for the BBC series Son of God, on which the Son of God Mass is based. Whitbourn also has a profile as a choral and orchestral conductor and has a close association with Westminster Choir College, where he has been Visiting Artist and a Composer-in-Residence.

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