Stephen Layton

Stephen Layton

Stephen Layton is a world renowned English conductor.

He has received multiple Grammy nominations for his work, a Gramophone Award and the Diapason d’Or in France for his choral recording of music by Benjamin Britten. [Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/11/grammy.cloudburst/index.html|title=Choral Grammy: Singing Layton's praises] [Cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/Layton.html|title=Stephen Layton conducts "Light of Light"] . He is currently director of music at Trinity College, Cambridge and Polyphony. As well as this he is artistic director of the Holst Singers. [Cite web|url=http://www.hazardchase.co.uk/artists/stephen_layton|title=Stephen Layton]

Early life

Brought up in Derby, his father was an organist at the local church, which is where his piano playing began.Cite web|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1742850,00.html|title=The polyphonic spree] He won a choral scholarship to Winchester where he was taught by Martin Neary, later music director at Westminster Abbey. He won scholarships to Eton and then King's College, Cambridge as an organ scholar. He was assistant organist at Southwark Cathedral before moving to the Temple church in 1997, first as organist, then director of music. He was appointed Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2006. [Cite web|url=http://www.stephenlayton.com/news/051028_trinity.html|title=Trinity appoint Layton as Musical Director]

Conductor

He has conducted many of the Britain's top orchestras, including the London Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. He has also worked with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the English Chamber Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Britten Sinfonia, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Academy of Ancient Music.

Further afield he has also conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart's Requiem with Australian Chamber Orchestra in at the Sydney Opera House.

On the choral side Layton is Principal Conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Choir and Chief Guest Conductor of the Danish National Choir. [cite web|url=http://www.stephenlayton.com/next.html?articles.html~leftFrame|title=Stephen Layton - Profile] and has also conducted choirs like the BBC Singers [Cite web|url=http://www.stephenlayton.com/news/020909_proms.html|title=Layton conducts BBC Singers] . He was even briefly offered the conductership of them, to the dislike of the singers themselves. [Cite web|url=http://www.stephenlayton.com/next.html?articles.html~leftFrame|title=Master and Commander|publisher=The Times]

Polyphony

The 21-mixed-voice choir Polyphony was formed by Stephen Layton in 1986 for a concert in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge.

They are notable for their recording "Sacred and Profane" of Britten's music which won them a Grammy nomination. They also received Grammy nominations for "Best Choral Performance" with their recordings of Lauridsen's "Lux Aeterna" and of Whitacre's "Cloudburst" in 2006 and 2007 respectively.

References

External links

* [http://www.stephenlayton.com/ Official website] of Stephen Layton
* [http://www.polyphony.co.uk/ Official website] of Polyphony


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