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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 also conducts the BMS Singers, the flagship adult choir of Bolton Music Service.
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. Alex is a passionate advocate for new music and has commissioned choral and vocal music from composers such as Howard Skempton, Amy Summers, Sarah Quartel and Hannah King. He is also a proud promotor of music by women composers with his recent CD ‘Rise Up and Wonder’ with Salford Cathedral Choir, comprising only sacred unaccompanied choral music composed by women. He is Artistic Director for the Salford Songbook, which aims to provide an ongoing digital resource for singing communities with new music inspired by Salford and the North West. 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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