Circle Singers - Musical Director

- Who's in charge?

Beresford King-Smith Musical Director

eresford King-Smith has been the Musical Director of the Circle Singes for the past fifteen years, since he retired in 1993 after 30 years as a senior administrator with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras. Besides composing music, mainly for choirs, Beresford is the CBSO's Archivist and the author of its official history, Crescendo and was for many years Chairman of the Midlands Early Music Forum, which organises workshops and other events for singers and instrumentalists, throughout the area. His Psalm Symphony, written in 2005, received its first performance in November 2006 in Sutton Coldfield; it was performed again in March 2007 by the Birmingham Choral Union in the Adrian Boult Hall, and a further performance, which he conducted himself, took place in April 2008 in Sheffield.

Beresford's Compositions which 'Circle' has sung include:

• - The Childrens Carol
• - The Stable Carol
• - The Nativity According to Mathew
• - A Celebration Jubilate
• - The Shepherd and the King
• - Come with me to Bethlehem
• - A Cradle Stands within the Stall
• - The Quality of Mercy
• - Mistletoe
• - Three Sappho Lyrics
• - The Lord is my Shepherd
• - I sing of a maiden
• - The World