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Alex Patterson is a Northern Irish-born composer, conductor and choral animateur based in Nottingham. He is Director of Music at Nottingham Cathedral and conducts a range of community and youth choirs in the region, including Beacon Voices, Nottingham Lunchtime Voices, Radcliffe Ladies’ Choir and the Nottingham Playhouse Choir.
Alex studied at the University of Nottingham and later at Birmingham Conservatoire specialising in composition and opera. He has developed 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. 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 Mass in B Minor, Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, both Duruflé’s and Fauré’s Requiem, and the musical thriller Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim. Between his various conducting duties and also working for Arts Council England, Alex is a freelance composer. He 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 and composed music for a range of organisations from Music for Everyone to Streetwise Opera. He is also a trustee for the Binns Organ Trust and Finzi Trust. |
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