AboutOfficial Site: http://www.halifaxchoralsociety.co.uk/index.htmlJohn Pryce-Jones was educated at Penarth and Worcester, from where he won an Organ Scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He studied conducting with George Hurst and Rafael Kubelik He began his career at the Welsh National Opera, was founder Chorus Master of Opera North, and has been Head of Music of Scottish Opera, and Music Director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. He has been Music Director of Northern Ballet Theatre since 1992 and is Artistic Director of the Halifax Choral Society, and the North of England Chamber Orchestra. Throughout his career John has had great success working as a singing coach with both young and also established singers. He has conducted throughout the UK, including BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Ulster Orchestra, the CBSO, RLPO, BBC Philharmonic, LPO, English National Opera, and English National Ballet. Abroad, he has conducted in the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Iceland, Scandinavia and Turkey. He has also worked extensively in the Brass band field both in this country and overseas. John has been actively involved with young musicians, and has conducted many Youth Orchestras and Choirs, and also the National Youth Brass Band. He has a fanatical commitment to encouraging and expanding the provision of music for young people as a stimulus for general education and confidence building. He is the founder Artistic Director of NOEL (Northern Orchestral Enterprises Ltd.) based at Dean Clough in Halifax, which has re-established the Yorkshire Youth Orchestra, formed the Yorkshire Youth Choir, the Calderdale Boys Choir, and various Singing for fun groups based on Kodaly principles, for children aged 4 and upwards, in Halifax, Bradford, Dewsbury, Grimsby, and Rotherham and Harrogate. In recognition of his work in music education, Huddersfield University conferred on him the Degree of Honorary Doctor of Letters. He has made a number of recordings with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Co., the Halifax Choral Society and the Britannia Brass Band, the Opera North Chorus, and the Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra, the latest of which (Great Expectations) won a record of the year award from the Gramophone magazine in December 2000. John is married to a musician, Alison, who now teaches and conducts numerous choirs, and has two children - a son, Rodric, who plays lead guitar in the successful rock band Idlewild, and a daughter, Catrin who is a member of the National Children's Orchestra. |
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