JEREMY BACKHOUSE

Jeremy Backhouse began his musical career in Canterbury Cathedral where he was Senior Chorister, and later studied music at Liverpool University. In 1986 he joined EMI Records as a Literary Editor and from April 1990 combined his work as a Consultant Editor for EMI Classics and later Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers with his career as a freelance conductor. He has given frequent concerts and broadcasts with the Vasari Singers, since they won the the Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition in 1988, and has worked with a number of other amateur and professional choirs, including the Wooburn Singers, the BBC Club Choir and the Kent Youth Choir, the BBC Singers, Trinity College of Music Choir and Chamber Choir, the Brighton Festival Chorus, the London Choral Society and London Chorus, and the Philharmonia Chorus. He is director of music of the Vivace Chorus in Guildford and in January 2009 he took up the post of Music Director of the Salisbury Community Choir, a 180-strong non-auditioned choir.

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