BBC Music Magazine Choral Award 2017 The College Choir, of which the Choristers form part, won the BBC Music Magazine Choral Award for its recording of Deo, a collection of sacred works by the late composer and College Honorary Fellow, Jonathan Harvey. Deo, released in May last year, was the first recording on the College’s new label, an imprint on Signum Classics. Harvey, who died in 2012, was an undergraduate at St John’s and is widely considered one of the most significant composers of his generation. Two of the works that appear on the recording were written specifically for the College Choir. It is the first time that a collegiate or cathedral choir has won the award for choral music at the prestigious ceremony. BBC Music Magazine is the world’s best-selling classical music monthly, and the awards are the only celebration of classical releases in which the winners in each of the main categories are chosen by the general public.
Front Cover: Form 6 performing Twelfth Night at the Shakespeare Schools Festival Back Cover: Artwork by Louise Porritt (Form 6) © St John’s College School 2017
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