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Alex Patterson is a Northern Irish-born conductor, composer and choral animateur based in the North West. He is Director of Music at Salford Cathedral and has previously worked for Nottingham Cathedral, Arts Council England and Music for Everyone. He currently hosts his own podcast, PatterPod and is a Trustee for the Finzi Trust.
Alex studied at the University of Nottingham and later at Birmingham Conservatoire specialising in composition and opera. He has a wealth of experience as a choral animateur, particularly for community and youth music-making, and was recently Musical Director for Nottingham Playhouse's community production of Coram Boy staged at Nottingham’s Albert Hall. He has also conducted a range of major works including Spem in Alium, the 40-part motet by Tallis, Handel's Dixit Dominus, J. S. Bach's St John Passion and Mass in B Minor, Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, and Jonathan Dove's church opera Tobias and the Angel.
Alex has written a wealth of choral music, which has been performed all over the world, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and published by Banks Music Publications. |
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