Charles Proctor (conductor)

Charles Proctor (5 April 1906 – 26 November 1996) was an English pianist, choral conductor, composer, adjudicator and author on musical subjects.

He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Julius Harrison and later with Emil Sauer in Dresden and Vienna.

It also sang in the Victory Concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 31 May 1945,[3] culminating in a post-war tour of Holland the following year.

[4] The Alexandra Choir also participated in the 12 seasons in which Josef Krips conducted Beethoven's Ninth at the Royal Festival Hall during the 1950s and 1960s.

[2] As a conductor he performed widely at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Covent Garden, where he was chorus master to Albert Coates, and for other large scale spectacular pageants produced there by T. C. Fairbairn - including 14 performances of Gounod's Faust in February 1938 with a cast of over 1,000.