Kerensa Briggs

Kerensa Rosie Joanne Briggs (born 1991) is a British composer, primarily of choral and organ music. In 2022 she began a three-year term as composer-in-residence with the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus in Missouri, USA. Family and education Briggs was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1991, while her father, David, was organist and master of the choristers at Truro Cathedral. After her father moved to Gloucester Cathedral, she sang in the youth choir there. She attended The King’s School in Gloucester from 1995 to 2002 and later studied music at the University of Bristol. Afterwards she sang with the Choir of King’s College London, where she held a choral scholarship and was awarded a Master of Music degree in composition. She became composer-in-residence at Godolphin and Latymer School. Briggs’s music, which is inspired by the Anglican choral tradition, Gregorian chant, early music and jazz, has been performed at St Paul’s Cathedral and the Sistine Chapel and has been broadcast on BBC Radio and Classic FM by ensembles such as the Tallis Scholars and the BBC Singers. and by the choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, under the direction of Anna Lapwood. Briggs has been described as writing in a