Nicholas Routley
Nicholas Routley is a conductor, pianist and composer who founded the Sydney Chamber Choir in 1975 and has shaped its work in Renaissance polyphony and new Australian choral music.
Born in England and educated at Cambridge, he moved to Australia in the mid-1970s and taught for many years in the Department of Music at the University of Sydney. A pupil of Franco Ferrara and Giulini, he has conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras in Europe and Asia, and he is musical director of the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra.
With the Sydney Chamber Choir he has recorded Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua and motets on Josquin (TP054), a programme of Ockeghem and his circle on The Ockeghem Legacy (TP141), and later Australian scores on Landscape’s Creatures (TP160), which also includes his own Sicut lilium. Since 1994 he has worked closely with the Song Company on Josquin’s secular music, including The Secular Josquin (TP077).
Nicholas Routley is featured on the following titles
Prayer Dances
Recorded in the Concert Hall of the Faculty of Music, University of Newcastle, Christian Heim's debut Move disc presents Nicholas Routley directing the Sydney Chamber Choir and Sprung Percussion in the two sacred Prayer Dances and other premiere works.