Stephen Wilkinson (musician)

Stephen Wilkinson (musician)

Stephen Wilkinson, MBE (born 1919) is an English choral conductor.

As a boy, he was a chorister at Christ Church, Oxford, and he went to the University of Cambridge on an organ scholarship. During World War II, he served in the Royal Navy.

He was director of the Hertfordshire Rural Music School and subsequently became conductor of the BBC Northern Singers and later the William Byrd Singers (With string ensemble 'Capriccio'), with whom he has been closely associated since their formation in 1970. Composers such as John McCabe have dedicated works to Wilkinson.


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