Simon Halsey

In addition, he was artistic director and founder of the professional choir European Voices, and principal conductor, choral programme, for the Northern Sinfonia from 2004 until 2012.

His position with the CBSO Chorus brings him into regular contact with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, including as conductor of the annual Christmas concerts.

Halsey served as chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor [nl]) from 1997 to 2008.

[4][5] Since season 2016–2017 he is the artistic director of the chorusses of Palau de la Música Catalana, in Barcelona, and the Chorus Master of Orfeó Català.

[6] He was involved in the BBC Proms in 2012–2015, preparing choirs for performances of Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time (2012), Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony, Britten's War Requiem and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.

He has also conducted projects as diverse as Handel's Messiah with the Minnesota Orchestra and Fauré's Requiem with the CBSO Chorus and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

His third Grammy was in 2011 for Saariaho's L'Amour de loin, by the Berlin Radio Choir and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, conducted by Kent Nagano.