Christopher Bowers-Broadbent

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (born 13 January 1945) is an English organist and composer. Biography Christopher Bowers-Broadbent was born in Hertfordshire UK on 13 January 1945. He was a boy chorister in the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge under Boris Ord and then briefly under David Willcocks. While at King’s, he played violin and piano. During his teenage years he was a pupil at Berkhamsted School where he first began to learn the organ under Dr Kenneth Abbott. After Berkhamsted School Bowers-Broadbent went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music where his principal studies were organ with Arnold Richardson (organist of the West London Synagogue and Wolverhampton Town Hall), and composition with Richard Rodney Bennett. Christopher Bowers-Broadbent is the father of musician Harry Broadbent. Compositions Choral *1968 Four Lovescapes, canticles (E. E. Cummings) *1972 Worthy is the Lamb, cantata *1974 The Hollow Man (T. S. Eliot) *1975 Rhymes without Reason, four songs (Mervyn Peake) *1976 The Story of Cars, a short cantata *1978 Deo Gratias, a motet *1981 The Quarry, a short cantata (W. H. Auden) *1989 Jubilate-Cantate *1999 Holy Communion service for Gray’s Inn Canticles Evenin