Nigel Short (singer)

Nigel Short is founder and artistic director of the choir Tenebrae and Tenebrae Consort.[1] He was previously a member of The King's Singers.[2]

Short was a chorister at Solihull Parish Church. He then studied singing and piano at the Royal College of Music before singing as a countertenor with a number of ensembles including The Tallis Scholars, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral choirs and The King's Consort.[3] He then pursued a solo career in opera and oratorio, singing several roles in opera productions in Europe and for the English National Opera and Opera North.[2]

In 1993 Short, then aged 27, joined The King's Singers.[4] It was while performing with this ensemble that Short conceived of creating a larger group of singers capable of more "passionate sounds" combined with "the precision of ensembles like The King's Singers",[4] and a more "theatrical" style of performing within religious buildings, involving movement around the performance venue as well as dramatic use of lighting and ambiance. The result was Tenebrae, founded in 2001.[2] The choir was launched that year with a performance of Nigel Short's own composition, The Dream of Herod.[5] The choir has extensively toured to critical acclaim,[1] and won the Choral category of BBC Music Magazine's Awards in 2012.[5]

In 2009 Short was appointed Director of Music at the church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, London, where he directed the professional Priory Church Choir.[6] He held this post until 2015.[7]

Nigel Short is also a recording producer for Signum Records, producing the albums A Choral Christmas with the Rodolfus Choir conducted by Ralph Allwood[8] and Invisible Stars with the Choral Scholars of University College Dublin conducted by Desmond Earley.[9]

Notes
  1. Allan Kozinn (November 8, 2011). "From Britain, the Sounds of a Century". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  2. "Nigel Short: Artistic Director". Tenebrae. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  3. "Nigel Short (Counter-tenor, Choral Conductor)". Bach-Cantatas.com. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  4. "Nigel Short, countertenor (1994-2000)". kingssing.com. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  5. "Tenebrae: Choir". Three Choirs Festival. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  6. "Nigel Short appointed Director of Music". St Bartholomew the Great. 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  7. "Organists & Directors of Music of St Bartholomew the Great". 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  8. A Choral Christmas booklet: Signum SIGCD 257
  9. "Signum SIGCD 436". signumrecords.com. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
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