Simon Carrington
Professor in the practice of choral conducting
Simon Carrington is director of the Yale Schola Cantorum and led the introduction of a new graduate voice degree for singers specializing in oratorio, early music, art song, and chamber ensemble.
From 2001 until his Yale appointment in 2003, he was director of choral activities at the New England Conservatory, and from 1994 to 2001 he held a similar position at the University of Kansas.
Prior to coming to the United States, he was a creative force for twenty-five years with the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble The King’s Singers, which he co-founded at Cambridge University. He maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor and choral clinician, leading workshops and master classes round the world. He has conducted the Monteverdi Vespers in Barcelona, the Fauré Requiem in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Beethoven's Meeresstille with the Texas All State Choir, Handel's Messiah in Dublin and the Rachmaninov Vespers in Victoria, BC with singers from all over Canada. He is a regular guest conductor at the Monteverdi Choir Festival in Budapest and the Tokyo Cantat in Japan, and leads annual workshops at the Chamber Choir Festival in Sarteano (Italy), and the Yale summer festival in Norfolk, Connecticut.
He has taken Yale Schola Cantorum to perform at the two major choral conventions in the US where they received standing ovations, and his recordings with the choir of baroque masterpieces by Bach, Biber, and Bertali have received enthusiastic reviews.
In 2008 he conducts Dvorak’s Te Deum and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevski at the International Choir Festival in Szczecin, Poland; the Choir and Rebel Baroque Orchestra at Trinity Church Wall Street; the Desert Chorale in Santa Fe; and returns as president of the international jury at the choral festival in Leipzig, Germany.
M.A., Cambridge University.