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Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (born 13 January 1945) is an English organist and composer.
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Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (born 13 January 1945) is an English organist and composer.
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent was born in Hertfordshire UK on 13 January 1945. [1] He was a boy chorister in the choir of King's College, Cambridge under Boris Ord and then briefly under David Willcocks. [1] While at King's he played violin and piano. [1] . During his teenage years he was a pupile at Berkhamsted School where he first began to learn the organ under Dr Kenneth Abbott. [1] After Berkhamsted School Bowers-Broadbent went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music where his principal studies were organ with Arnold Richardson (organist of the West London Synagogue and Wolverhampton Town Hall), and composition with Richard Rodney Bennett. [1]
Over more than 60 years he has composeda wide range of works, including : four operas (The Pied Piper of Hamelin, with children, 1972; The Seacock Bane, for teenagers, 1978; The Last Man, comic, 2003; The Face, a crime thriller, 2012): choral music (Shabbat Evening and Morning Service, in Hebrew, 2021' Te Deum, 2023/5; Benedictus, 2025; Jubilate, 2025) and organ music (Duets and Canons,1996; Media vita, 1996; 7 Words, 2002). [1]
He made his debut at the Camden Festival in 1966; his first major recitals were at the St Albans International Organ Festival in 1969 and the Royal Festival Hall in 1971. His first appearance as a soloist was at the Proms in 1972. He has worked extensively with Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices. [1]
His extensive discography includes many ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) albums, reflecting a long-running and fruitful partnership with the Hilliard Ensemble and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. He has recorded CDs as an organist, and with the He has also appeared with Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices.
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent is the father of musician Harry Broadbent.
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