Bob Chilcott

Bob Chilcott has enjoyed a lifelong association with choral music, as a chorister and choral scholar in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and as a member of the King’s Singers. He became a full-time composer and conductor in 1997, and has composed a large catalogue of choral music which is published by Oxford University Press. Amongst his most often performed pieces are Can you hear me? and A Little Jazz Mass, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

Bob has directed choirs in more than 30 countries worldwide and conducts many thousands of amateur singers in a continuing series of Singing Days. Since 1996 he has conducted many children and young singers through choir residencies and festivals across Europe, America, and the UK.

In July 2024 his 2012 BBC Proms cantata The Angry Planet for mixed choir and children’s choir is performed at the Three Choirs Festival, and the BBC Singers will release a second disc of repertoire for upper voices, which includes Times and Seasons. In 2025 The Children’s Chorus of Washington, together with mixed voice choir, Choralis, gives the world première of their jointly commissioned work, Rainbow.

(photo credit John Bellars)