Composers, conductors and people shaping the choral world

Bernard Hughes

Bernard Hughes is a composer of exciting and appealing choral music, which ranges from the memorably melodic to the fast and rhythmic.

Cecilia McDowall

Cecilia McDowall (b.1951) is one of the UK’s leading composers of sacred and secular choral music and has won many awards including, in 2014, the British Composer Award in the Choral category for her haunting work, Night Flight.

Susannah Self

Dr Susannah Self is a composer, singer and conductor. 'A substantial score of fervent, directly expressive music.' – Paul Conway in Musical Opinion

Zachariah Goh

Zechariah Goh Toh Chai is a Singaporean composer and Senior Lecturer in Composition at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. His music spans choral, symphonic band, wind ensemble, chamber and large-scale orchestral works, characterised by a distinctive fusion of Southeast Asian-Chinese and Western traditions.

Memli Kelmendi

Memli Kelmendi is a Kosovan composer and conductor based in Peja, Kosovo. Alongside his choral output, he is active as a film composer, contributing music and sound design to award-winning films presented at major festivals including the Berlinale and Cannes.

Eric Whitacre

Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor, Eric Whitacre, is among today’s most popular musicians. A graduate of The Juilliard School, his works are performed worldwide, and his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have united well over 100,000 singers from more than 145 countries.

Paul Smith

Ian Gabriel Corpuz

Ian 'Gab' Corpuz is a Filipino conductor, composer, arranger and music educator whose choral works are performed by ensembles across the Philippines. A graduate of the Centro Escolar University Conservatory of Music, he won first prize at an international choral composition competition in Busan, South Korea in 2017, and his music often draws inspiration from Filipino folk and ethnic traditions.