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Michael was appointed Conductor of the CSO on the retirement of Ralph Willatt in 2005. He studied singing and organ at the RSCM and Trinity College of Music where he was awarded prizes for choir training, conducting and research including the prestigious Ricordi Opera Prize for conducting. |
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As well as being Conductor of the Chichester Symphony Orchestra, Michael has been Musical Director of CAOS, the Chichester Amateur Operatic Society, for 25 years. He is also composer-in-residence to the chamber choir Chichester Voices for whom he has composed several large-scale works with orchestral accompaniment. Three years ago, he was commissioned to write a double oboe concerto which was performed in Chichester Cathedral at one of the choir’s concerts and a Fanfare of the Heart for a concert sponsored by the British Heart Foundation. Michael is editor of the Magazine Laudate for the Guild of Church Musicians, and has a seat on their Council as well as that of the Guild of Musicians and Singers, the Norwich School of Church Music, the Curwen College of Music and has recently been appointed Registrar of the Metropolitan College of Music. In past years, he has conducted many concerts as part of the Chichester Festivities including a notable Fauré Requiem for Kosovo and the millennium Messiah in Chichester Cathedral in the BT Voices for Hospices series. In 2003, his contribution to church music was recognised by the award of an Honorary Membership of the Guild of Church Musicians (HonGCM). He was also honoured that year to have been commissioned to compose a setting of the Magnificat and the Nunc Dimittis for the use of St. Paul's Cathedral Choir.
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