Christopher Brown

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There are at least two artists that go by Christopher Brown. 1) Born: 1943 English composers have often been renowned for their choral music and this is a tradition in which Christopher Brown has excelled. Born in 1943, he was a chorister at Westminster Abbey, continued his education at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and in 1962 won a choral scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge. From 1965-67 he studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Lennox Berkeley, whose grace and naturalness as a composer he inherited, and completed his studies with a year in Berlin with Boris Blacher. In 1974 he was awarded a Collard Fellowship by the Worshipful Company of Musicians and won the first Guinness Prize for Composition with his 1st String Quartet (1970). In 1976 he was the first British composer to win the coveted Prince Pierre of Monaco Prize with his Soliloquy, a work that also brought him a second Guinness Prize in the same year, while his 2nd String Quartet was awarded first prize in the Washington International Competition. His style is essentially lyrical and vocal, and this has led him to write a wide range of choral and vocal music in all genres. Many of the early pieces were short works such as the Three Shakespeare Songs (1965), Elegy (1967) and a number of Christmas pieces. Hodie Salvator Apparuit and Aubade both show his skill in writing more extended and elaborate choral textures, and these he has further explored in later works such as the Herrick Songs, From the Doorway

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Dots (feat. The Bookends Band)

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Christopher Brown

rough sax

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Do the Fright Thing

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Meet The Skeptics!

Telepathic Daydream

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I Am Universol

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Christopher Brown's Album

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Ghoul Poon Presents Do the Fright Thing - Vol. 3

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Hodie Carols From Cambridge

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Run It!

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