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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, where he oversees all aspects of the Cathedral Music Foundation, as well as the Diocesan Schools Singing Programme, which engages with over 1,200 children in singing sessions in schools across Greater Manchester and Lancashire each week.
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, through positions at Music for Everyone, a Nottingham-based music participatory charity, and as Director of Music at Nottingham Cathedral. He has 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. He was also Musical Director for Nottingham Playhouse's community production of Coram Boy staged at Nottingham’s Albert Hall. In addition to previous work at Arts Council England, 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. He hosts his own podcast, PatterPod, and is a Trustee for the Finzi Trust. |
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