The International Choir Festival of Jersey
A Biennial Festival
9th–12th October 2008   register your interest today!

2008 Diary 

We are delighted to advise that our panel of adjudicators this year will comprise Bob Chilcott, Brendan O’Connor and Robert Sund.

Bob Chilcott is from England and has been involved in choral music for most of his life. He was a chorister and choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, and for twelve years was a member of the vocal group The King’s Singers. Since 1997 he has worked as a full-time composer and has written a wide variety of choral music, a number of pieces having been published in German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Slovenian. He is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers and has conducted many other leading choirs world-wide and at festivals from Festival 500 in Newfoundland to Tallinn, where in 2004, as the first foreign musician to be invited, he conducted a choir of 7000 young singers at the Estonian Song Festival in one of his most popular pieces, “Can you hear me?”.

Brendan O’Connor is from Ireland. He combines life as a marine scientist and MD of an environmental consultancy company specialising in monitoring and managing resources in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments with being the conductor of Cois Cladaigh, a mixed voice choir. The choir has toured extensively in Europe and has enjoyed considerable success at the Cork International Choral Festival. Brendan himself has been an adjudicator for the schools competition at the Cork Festival.
     
Robert Sund is from Sweden and is well known both in Sweden and internationally. His many talents include singing, arranging, composing and conducting, as well as teaching conducting and ensemble leadership.  He has travelled extensively to lead courses for both choral singers and conductors and had been a guest conductor for choirs world-wide. Robert has been the director of the male-voice choir Orphei Drängar in his homeland since 1991. His association with the choir started some 26 years earlier as a second bass. Robert is an experienced adjudicator having been a jury member at numerous choral festivals.