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Informationen zum Autor Harry Christophers (CBE) is one of the UK's finest conductors, and a recipient of the prestigious Gramophone Artist of the Year Award. He is the conductor and artistic director of The Sixteen, which he founded 40 years ago. Since 2008 he has also been Artistic Director of the Handel & Haydn Society in America, and guest conductor with many of the world's finest orchestras. He was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, a choral scholar at Magdalen College Oxford, and sang professionally with the choir of Westminster Abbey and the BBC Singers before devoting himself full-time to conducting. Sara Mohr-Pietsch is a music broadcaster, writer and curator. She joined the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast show in 2006, and since then has become one of Radio 3's best-known voices. As well as hosting the BBC Proms for BBC FOUR television, Sara presents Choir & Organ, Music Matters and live concerts on Radio 3. She also devised and hosted Composers' Rooms, intimate radio portraits of composers in their work-spaces. Sara studied music at Cambridge and Edinburgh universities, and has sung in choirs since the age of 8. Klappentext Household name in choral music the Sixteen approach their fortieth birthday as a major presence in classical music, with choir member Harry Christophers in conversation with Sara Mohr-Pietsch here regarding the group's achievements, position and the unique qualities of the genre they operate in. Zusammenfassung With The Sixteen, Christophers has succeeded in nurturing a choir of exceptional calibre, establishing a business model that includes a record label and extensive tours to capacity audiences, mining a rich variety of repertoire, and combining enormous popular appeal with the stamp of approval from experts.
