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Christopher Wiltshire
After early training in composition – twice winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Composer’s Award – Christopher Wiltshire’s career developed through accompanying, chamber music recital work, teaching, orchestration, conducting, adjudicating and work in the professional theatre. As a Senior Examiner for Trinity Guildhall, he travels world-wide on teacher support programmes. Composing and arranging are on-going activities and, through his website www.customscores.co.uk , he offers customized scores of his own arrangements for individual school orchestras.
On the academic side, Christopher Wiltshire’s doctoral research on British male voice choirs remains unique and he has published and broadcast on the subject. He has also written extensively on the competitive festival movement, producing the official history of the British Federation of Festivals as well as a fully illustrated publication The British Federation – A Portrait Of Its People. He contributes reviews and articles to Choir and Organ and his book Examining India is published on his website. In 1994, his alma mater, The Royal Academy of Music, awarded him an honorary diploma for his services to music.
As well as national tours and working at theatres in London and the South East, there has been a strong association with The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. He composed original scores for main house and studio production (including Wycherley’s The Country Wife), conducted Funny Girl with Marti Caine, Cabaret (Gemma Jones), The Fantasticks (produced by Mel Smith) and, most notably, the European Premiere of Chicago. In addition, he directed a wide variety of pantomimes and smaller shows, often supplying original music and arrangements, at the same time coaching non-singing actors.
Conducting appointments have included National Champions Bolsterstone Male Voice Choir and The Sheffield Chamber Orchestra, for whom he commissioned several works by British composers. This, together with his policy of programming contemporary music, resulted in an award from The Performing Right Society.
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