Harry Christophers

Richard Henry Tudor "Harry" Christophers CBE FRSCM (born 26 December 1953) is an English conductor.

[3] Christophers became an academical clerk at Magdalen College, Oxford, studying classics for two years before beginning his musical career.

[citation needed] In 2000, Christophers began the "Choral Pilgrimage", a national tour of English cathedrals from York to Canterbury, in music from the pre-Reformation era as the Sixteen's contribution to the millennium celebrations.

[10][11] He concluded his Handel and Haydn Society tenure as its artistic director in May 2022, and now has the title of conductor laureate with the organisation.

[12] In December 2008 BBC Four broadcast Sacred Music: The Story of Allegri's Miserere, presented by Simon Russell Beale, with a performance by The Sixteen conducted by Christophers at St Luke Old Street.