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ALBUMMilken Archive: Weill: Kiddush - Davidson: …And David Danced Before the Lord - The Hush of Midnight (excerpts)Hans Peter Blochwitz, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, BBC Singers, Avner Itai, Amy Goldstein, Douglas Webster, Buffalo Vocal Ensemble, Brad Lubman, Ramon Ricker Jazz Quintet, Studio ensemble, Ray Edgar, Zamir Chorale & Stanley Sperber
ALBUMBerlinski: from the World of My Father - Shofar Service - Symphonic Visions for OrchestraGerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, Ted Christopher, BBC Singers, Tim Roseman, James Ghigi, Stephen Keavy, Avner Itai, Barbara Harbach & Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra
ALBUMAmram: Songs of the Soul - Shir L'Erev Shabbat - the Final IngredientRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Christopher Wilkins, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, Kenneth Kiesler, BBC Singers, Richard Troxell, Deborah Selig, Pei Yi Wang, Sarah Elizabeth Williams, Thomas Glenn, Brian Pfaltzgraf, Nicholas Phan, Mark Kent, Jesse Blumberg, Michigan University Symphony Orchestra, Michigan University Opera Chorus & Tyler Oliphant
ALBUMBen-Amots: Celestial Dialogues - Hashkivenu - Shtetl SongsChristopher Bowers-Broadbent, BBC Singers, Kenneth Kiesler, Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra, Alberto Mizrahi, David Krakauer, Karl Anton Rickenbacher, Re'ut Ben-Ze'ev, John Musto, Eva Seinerova, Permonik Children's Choir, Petr Hladík & Rostislav Mikeska
About Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
Artist Biography
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent is one of Europe's leading organists in the field of avant-garde music.
As a boy he took part in the competitive auditions to become a chorister at King's College, Cambridge. In return for performing daily, at services in the College Chapel, during the course of which they learn a wide variety of choral repertoire, the choristers also received a thorough musical and general education at King's College School. Bowers-Broadbent studied organ, and when he graduated went on to the Royal Academy of Music in London.
During his studies he became committed to contemporary music. He is particularly close to the music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. This attraction began when a BBC early music producer introduced him to Part's music. Bowers-Broadbent was particularly impressed by the music's "power over time and space" as well as the humanity that is evident in the music.
As a result of his commitment to contemporary music, Bowers-Broadbent has commissioned new works by composers such as Pärt, Philip Glass, Gavin Bryars, Henryk Gorecki, Stephen Montague, Robert Simpson, and Priaulx Rainer. Bowers-Broadbent records on the Harmonia Mundi and ECM Records labels, on which he has released some of this repertoire, other works by Pärt, and music of Satie, Milhaud, Messiaen, Handel, and Maxwell Davies.
Since 1976 Bowers-Broadbent has been professor of organ at the Royal Academy of Music.
In 1996 he suggested that Pärt revise his Berline4 Mass, written just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and celebrating the new freedom gained by Eastern Europeans. ECM released the revised version, with Bowers-Broadbent, Paul Hillier, and the Theatre of Voices, in March, 2000. ~ Joseph Stevenson
Hometown
England
Genre
Classical
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