Manchester Chamber Choir has been fortunate to work with many of the leading choral conductors both in the North West and from further afield, allowing the choir to enjoy a diverse range of choral experience and repertoire, offering new and exciting challenges along the way. As a result the singers have benefited from working with
- experienced singers and choral directors such as Eamonn Dougan, John Powell, Martin Bussey, Gordon Stewart, Darius Battiwalla and Marcus Farnsworth
- talented orchestral players and conductors, such as Mark Heron, Alexander Shelley, Malcolm Layfield, and Andrew Watkinson
- specialists in the field of church music, such as Simon Lole, Christopher Stokes, and Richard Tanner.
More information about our conductors is available here.
The choir will continue to work with a range of different conductors, but has been delighted to welcome Justin Doyle as its Principal Conductor from the season 2009/10. Justin brings a breadth of experience to the choir, with a background in both orchestral and choral music as well as an infectious enthusiasm.
Justin Doyle
Born in Lancaster, Justin was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral and studied at King's College, Cambridge. He won second prize in the prestigious Cadaqués Orchestra Conducting Competition from over 180 conductors worldwide and was awarded the first Conductor Fellowship with the BBC Singers.
Recent engagements have included concerts with the Orchestra of Opera North, Northern Sinfonia, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, New London Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Kensington Chamber Orchestra, the Harmony of Nations period instrument ensemble, Rodolfus Choir, EXAUDI vocal ensemble, regular broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and a cover CD for BBC Music Magazine.
Justin has been Artistic Director of Ryedale Festival and Swaledale Festival and is Musical Director of the King's Camerata and Da Chiesa baroque ensemble. For companies including Eastern Opera, Opera North and English Touring Opera he has conducted Bizet Carmen, Donizetti The Elixir of Love, Gluck Orpheus and Eurydice, Handel Orlando, Haydn L'infedeltà delusa and Philemon und Baucis, Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel, Kodály Háry János, Mozart Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, The Rescue from the Seraglio and Die Zauberflöte, Purcell Dido and Aeneas and Strauss Die Fledermaus. He is currently conducting Così fan tutte for Opera North throughout the country.
Meet our guest conductors.
