John Bate, Artistic Director

We are particularly fortunate in having access to superb choral training from our artistic director, John Bate, whose professional reputation is well known in London music circles.

JOHN BATE was a cathedral chorister and a Scholar and professor of Trinity College of Music. He has directed a wide variety of performing groups, including Thames Festival Orchestra, and has given many concerts in London and elsewhere in the UK. He has chorus-mastered the Philharmonia Chorus, the Royal Choral Society and the All-London 1977 Silver Jubilee Choir.

From 1978 to 2001 he was Director of Music Performance at Kingston University, when Kingston music became famous throughout the academic world, personally directing the orchestras and choirs in many events and venues throughout the UK and in Germany and China.

Besides choral music, his repertoire embraces opera and orchestral works of many periods, and he is well known for his work with both choirs and orchestras.