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19 Dec 2022 | |
Alumni News |
King's Choir Bass Lay Clerk Henry Brearley (OS 2015) will be singing in the televised BBC Two showing of 'Carols from King's' service on Christmas Eve, which will also be broadcast on UK radio. The service will broadcast on BBC Two from 6.15pm.
Founded in the fifteenth century, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge is undoubtedly one of the world's best known choral groups.
Henry's King's Men Member Profile
Henry is enjoying his third year in the King's Choir as a Bass Lay Clerk. Ever the example to younger members of the Choir, he takes a role as senior cartographer compiling the upcoming "Moral Map: A Guide to Anglican Church Music and Her Hostelries" building on his previous successes, such as "How Not to Conduct Oneself Before, During or After Evensong" - a set text on many undergraduate Choral Scholar reading lists. Having held organ scholarships to almost every Cambridge college, Henry only found himself in his present position after mistakenly believing he had been offered a post-graduate organ scholarship to King's. Realising he'd been duped, Henry settled back into the Decani stalls where he often delights in applying his oversized instrument to delicate verse anthems and canticles at sight.
Leaving no strand of academic pursuit free of his mediocrity, Henry can occasionally be found applying his hard-earned Theoretical Physics degree to rigorous part-time study of the piano at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and even-more-rigorously-part-time study of the organ at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. A study of the Laws of England and Wales has ensued, conjuring rose-tinted images of a career at the Bar (note, please, the use of the majuscule). When in more agreeable country, Henry enjoys hill-walking, mountaineering, drawing hillwalkers' and mountaineers' hills and mountains, and listening to BBC Radio 4.
Henry is set to support the Stockport Grammar School music department during a tour of King's during a school visit to Cambridge in January 2023 at which we will be very grateful of his support.
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