Christopher Bell
Conductor Christopher Bell was a co-founder of the National Youth Choir of Scotland and has long been associated with that group. He has also conducted several highly visible American choirs as well as choirs in the Netherlands, Australia, and Finland, and he has been active as an orchestral conductor.
Bell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Edinburgh University in Scotland and served as chorus master and later artistic director of the Royal Edinburgh Choral Union from 1987 to 1990. From there, he moved to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus, serving as chorus master between 1989 and 2002. Bell made his conducting debut in 1988 in a performance of Handel's Messiah, HWV 56, with the Ulster Orchestra. He was the associate conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra between 1989 and 1991, and he has since worked with orchestras across the UK and Ireland. However, he is best known as a choral conductor, with a special emphasis on working with young singers. For 22 years, ending in 2017, he was the director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and served as chorus master of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus. One of Bell's most distinctive collaborations has been with the National Youth Choir of Scotland, for whose formation in 1996 he was largely responsible. He has recorded with that group and taken it on tour to several European countries, and through the large NYCOS choral infrastructure he supervised, he seems ready to influence generations of Scottish singers. Bell was the chorus master of the Belfast Philharmonic Choir from 2005 to 2011. He has also been active and successful in the U.S., serving as the chorus director of the outdoor Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago, conducting concerts there annually since 2002. He has prepared many concerts with the Netherlands Radio Choir and has led concerts and recordings with the Opera Australia Choir, and in 2014, he led a performance of Haydn’s Creation with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir.
Bell's discography is similarly varied. He has recorded for the Cedille label with the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, as well as for Linn and Signum Classics. On the latter label, with the National Youth Choir of Scotland, he released the album Cantos Sagrados in 2020, featuring the title work by composer James MacMillan. Bell has received several awards, including Scotsman of the Year for Creative Talent in 2001, the Sir Charles Grove Prize in 2003, and several honorary degrees.
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21 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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A Christmas Festival
Christopher Bell, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, RSNO Junior Chorus
Divers - Paru chez Linn Records le 18 nov. 2016
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Cantos Sagrados
National Youth Choir of Scotland, Christopher Bell
Classique - Paru chez Signum Records le 8 mai 2020
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Copland: Simple Gifts
National Youth Choir of Scotland, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Christopher Bell
Classique - Paru chez Signum Classics le 1 juil. 2020
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Ave Maria
National Youth Choir of Scotland, Christopher Bell
Classique - Paru chez Signum Records le 22 avr. 2020
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Air Fa La La Lo
National Youth Choir of Scotland, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Christopher Bell
Classique - Paru chez Signum Records le 30 nov. 2020
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A Burns Sequence
National Youth Choir of Scotland, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Christopher Bell
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez iMD-NYCOS le 1 oct. 1998
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Irving Berlin’s America
National Youth Choir of Scotland, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Christopher Bell
Classique - Paru chez Signum Records le 1 juil. 2020
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All Those Men Who Marched Away
NYCOS National Boys Choir, Christopher Bell, Stuart Hope
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez iM National Youth Choir of Scotland le 14 nov. 2018
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Copland: Long Time Ago
National Youth Choir of Scotland, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Christopher Bell
Classique - Paru chez Signum Classics le 1 juil. 2020
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Westering Home
National Youth Choir of Scotland, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Christopher Bell
Classique - Paru chez Signum Records le 30 nov. 2020
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Cantos Sagrados: I. Identity
National Youth Choir of Scotland, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Christopher Bell
Classique - Paru chez Signum Records le 8 avr. 2020
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Songs of Small Creatures and other American choral works
Grant Park Chorus, Christopher Bell
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez Cedille le 5 juin 2012
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Alicia Enstrom & Christopher Bell
Alicia Enstrom, Christopher Bell
Électronique - Paru chez Alicia Enstrom - Tone Tree Music le 17 juil. 2020
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I'll Be Home
Folk - Paru chez Silent Home Records le 1 janv. 2007
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From Here to There
Folk - Paru chez Silent Home Records le 15 janv. 2013
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Tough Luck, We Tried, Now Lets Go Back
Folk - Paru chez Silent Home Records le 1 janv. 2009
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Bitter Bluebird
Pop - Paru chez Silent Home Records le 25 août 2009
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Christopher Bell
Rock - Paru chez Silent Home Records le 17 juil. 2012
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PRISM (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bandes originales - Paru chez Silent Home Records le 1 janv. 2017
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