 Will Dawes is a British Choral Director and Baritone. He is Director of Chapel Music at Somerville College, Oxford, where he directs the only auditioned non-liturgical college choir in the University and has directed the BBC Singers and the Eric Whitacre Singers. He was the founding Director of Music of Frideswide Voices, Oxford's first group of 7-13 year-old girl choristers in over 500 years. For 16 years, he was a member of the triple-GRAMMY-nominated early-music ensemble Stile Antico and has also sung with some of the foremost choral ensembles in the UK including The Sixteen, The Cardinall's Musick, Ora, Magnificat, Gabrieli Consort, Polyphony, and London Voices. He loves the music of Byrd, and has twice curated a performance of the complete Latin works of William Byrd in 24 hours, both taking place in the church of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford, where he is Director of Music. |
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