Simon Carrington
Choral Clinician

Simon Carrington has recently been appointed Director of Choral Activities at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, and will begin his duties in September, 2001.

Since 1994 he has served as professor, artist-in-residence, and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Kansas for seven years after his 25 year career as founder, member, co-director, and creative force with the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble, The King's Singers. With the group, he gave 3000 performances at many of the world's most prestigious festivals and concert halls, made nearly 70 recordings, and appeared on countless television and radio programs. Furthermore, he led workshops and masterclasses in Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan.

During the early years of The King's Singers, he also enjoyed a successful career as an orchestral musician, playing with most of London's leading symphony and chamber orchestras and as the double bass continuo player in the performances and recordings of the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir that launched the career of his Cambridge contemporary, John Eliot Gardiner.

At the University of Kansas, Professor Carrington developed an extensive choral program that includes masters and doctoral degree programs along with seven choirs and three vocal jazz ensembles. With an ambitious selection of repertoire, his choirs were featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today, made three CDs, a PBS television recording of the University of Kansas Annual Holiday Vespers, and undertook highly successful concert tours to Carnegie Hall New York, England, France, Hungary and Brazil. In his final semester he took the University of Kansas Chamber Choir to perform three concerts before 6000 choral directors gathered from all over the world at the American Choral Director's National Convention in San Antonio, Texas.

In addition to his work at the New England Conservatory, Mr. Carrington is now pursuing a freelance career as conductor and choral clinician both in Europe and the USA. He is one of the busier All-State conductors in the United States. Hconducts, leads choral institutes and adjudicates festivals and competitions all over the world. He served recently on the jury and as conductor at the Marktoberdorf Chamber Choir Competition, he was a clinician at the Fifth World Symposium on Choral Music in Rotterdam and directed a series of choral workshops at the International Choral Convention in Singapore. Among other activities this year, he was the featured guest at the summer choral institute at the University of North Texas and ran a series of conducting seminars and concerts at the Franz Liszt Conservatory of Music in Budapest, Hungary.