Willcocks, David

Performer

Sir David Willcocks CBE, MC (born 30 December 1919) is a British choralconductor, organist, and composer. His son, Jonathan Willcocks, is also a composer. He has made recordings with the Bach Choir, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Jacques Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. He also served as general editor of the Church Music series of the Oxford University Press. He is particularly known for his widely used choral arrangements of Christmas carols, most of which were originally written for the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's or the Bach Choir's Christmas concerts. They are published in the five Carols for Choirs anthologies (1961–1987), edited by Willcocks with Reginald Jacques and John Rutter. The descant arrangements in particular are among the most famous and well-loved musical components.[7] He is currently Music Director Emeritus of King's College Choir, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.  [source from Wikipedia]

Work

Willcocks, David