Biography

Harry Bradford is a prize-winning conductor and choral director working in the UK and Europe. Since winning Second Prize in the prestigious Eric Ericson Award 2021, he has collaborated with a number of the world’s finest vocal ensembles including the MDR Rundfunkchor, the Eric Ericsons Kammarkör, the Sixteen and the Swedish Radio Choir.

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Harry is the conductor and co-founder of the professional vocal ensemble, Recordare, with whom he has performed extensively across festivals in the UK, and holds permanent positions as the Musical Director of the Thames Philharmonic Choir, the English Baroque Choir and North Herts Guild of Singers. In increasing demand as an orchestral conductor, he has collaborated with some of the UK's finest orchestras and period ensembles including the English Chamber Orchestra, the Orion Orchestra, Endelienta Baroque, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts and his own orchestra the Beaufoy Sinfonia.
 

​Upcoming highlights for the 25-26 season include returning to the Eric Ericsons Kammarkör (Schnittke Choir Concerto) and the MDR Rundfunkchor (Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes), Handel's Messiah Part 1 with the Britten Sinfonia as part of the Hatfield House Music Festival and performances of Mendelssohn's Elijah and Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony. Recent career highlights include Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem and JS Bach B Minor Mass at Cadogan Hall, Handel Israel in Egypt at St John’s Smith Square and CPE Bach Magnificat at the St Endellion Easter Festival.

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Equally in demand as workshop leader, Harry has led choral workshops for the Sixteen as part of their Choral Pilgrimage tour, the Cherubim Music Trust as well as for numerous choirs and festivals across the country. Harry was also a course director for the Choir of the Earth, an online choir with a global membership, leading them in their Requiems at Home and Festival of Music courses. He combines his love of music and education as a Teacher/Singer for the Pimlico Musical Foundation. 

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Harry read music at Downing College Cambridge and was a member of the choir of King’s College under the late Sir Stephen Cleobury. He studied Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music with Professor Patrick Russill and graduated with distinction, a DipRAM and the Academy Alumni Award for ‘a singularly distinguished studentship’. During his time at the Academy, Harry was also the Genesis Sixteen conducting scholar 2018-19, studying under Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan, and the Alec Robertson scholar at Westminster Cathedral.

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In 2024, Harry was awarded an Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) for continuing service to the music profession. 

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He remains active as a singer and recently performed as part of the Choir of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal at the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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