15 Facts About Bob Chilcott

Robert Chilcott was born on 9 April 1955 and is a British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxfordshire, England.

Bob Chilcott was a member of the King's Singers from 1985 to 1997, singing tenor.

Bob Chilcott sang in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, both as a boy and as a university student, when he conducted the voluntary Choral Society, which included many singers from other colleges.

Bob Chilcott performed the Pie Jesu of Faure's Requiem on the 1967 King's College recording.

Bob Chilcott is associated with the New Orleans Children's Chorus and the Crescent City Festival in New Orleans, for which he wrote A Little Jazz Mass, Happy Land, This Day, Be Simple Little Children, and for the 2009 festival, I Lift My Eyes.

Bob Chilcott wrote This Day, a setting of five poems, for a 2006 choral festival in New Orleans; however, that festival was cancelled after Hurricane Katrina.

Bob Chilcott wrote two larger sacred works, Canticles of Light and Jubilate.

Bob Chilcott's Requiem was premiered on 13 March 2010 at the Sheldonian in Oxford by the Oxford Bach Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Cleobury.

Bob Chilcott conducted the premiere of his On Christmas Night on 12 December 2010 at the University Christian Church of Austin, Texas.

Bob Chilcott's setting of the St John Passion is an hour-long work premiered by Wells Cathedral Choir in 2013.

Bob Chilcott conducted the festival choir and the accompanying instrumentalists the Yellowjackets.

In 2023, Bob Chilcott created a new interpretation of the carol The First Noel for the Church of England's 'Follow The Star' campaign.

Bob Chilcott was the conductor of the chorus at the Royal College of Music in London for seven years, and is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers.

Bob Chilcott is President of Southend Boys' Choir, a choir from Southend-on-Sea which regularly performs at London venues such as the Royal Albert Hall.

Bob Chilcott currently conducts the Birmingham University Singers, one of three auditioned choirs at the University of Birmingham.