Circle Singers - Musical Director

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Beresford King-Smith

Beresford King-Smith
Musical Director

eresford King-Smith has been the Musical Director of the Circle Singers for the past eighteen 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 King-Smith

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

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  • - The Childrens Carol Play
  • - The Stable Carol Play
  • - The Nativity According to Matthew Play
  • - A Celebration Jubilate
  • - The Shepherd and the King
  • - Come with me to Bethlehem Play
  • - A Cradle Stands within the Stall Play
  • - The Quality of Mercy
  • - Mistletoe
  • - Three Sappho Lyrics
  • - The Lord is my Shepherd
  • - I sing of a maiden
  • - The World
  • - The Golden Journey to Samarkand (composed for the Circle Singers Jubilee Concert)
  • - A Musical Instrument


      Musical Director: Beresford King-Smith
      8 South Parade, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B72 1QY
      Tel/Ans/Fax: 0121-355-5018 E-Mail:       cantabile@freeola.com