Jeremy Summerly
Jeremy Summerly (born 28 February 1961) is a British conductor. He was educated at Lichfield Cathedral School, Winchester College, and New College, Oxford. While at Oxford he conducted the New College Chamber Orchestra and the Oxford Chamber Choir. After graduating with a first-cl* honours degree in music in 1982, he started work as a studio manager for BBC Radio, while pursuing postgraduate research in historical musicology at King's College London. Since 1991 he has been a presenter and reviewer for BBC's Radios 3 and 4, in particular for Radio 4's Front Row, and Radio 3's Record Review (formerly CD Review).
Since 1983 he has been conductor of the mixed-voice consort at the Edington Music Festival, and in 2012 he was appointed artistic director of Mayfield Festival of Music and the Arts, where he is also conductor of Mayfield Festival Choir.
He founded Oxford Camerata in 1984. In 1989, he was appointed lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was head of academic studies from 1996 to 2007, and thereafter head of continuing professional development. He was conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford from 1990 to 1996. He was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in 2006, and in 2015 he became their Sterndale Bennett Visiting Lecturer in Music.
In 2010, he was appointed director of music at St Luke's Church, Chelsea. He conducted the choir of The Queen's College, Oxford for the 2013–14 academic year, and was director of music at St Peter's College, Oxford, from 2015 to 2019. In 2017, he was made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music and he has been visiting professor of music history at Gresham College since 2019.
Contents
- 1 Discography
- 2 Publications
- 3 References
- 4 External links
Discography
Tallis — Spem in alium, Missa Salve intemerata, 200520th-century Sacred Music (Martin, Górecki, Duruflé, Stanford, Byron)Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Lamentations (White, Tallis, Palestrina, L*us, de Brito)Oxford Camerata
Palestrina — Missae Papae Marcelli & Aeterna Christi muneraOxford Camerata
Portuguese Requiem M*es (Lôbo, Cardoso)Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Byrd — M*es for 4 and 5 Voices & Infelix egoOxford Camerata
Victoria — Missae O magnum mysterium & O quam gloriosumOxford Camerata
Tallis — M* for Four Voices & MotetsOxford Camerata
Gesualdo — Complete Sacred Music for 5 VoicesOxford Camerata
Medieval Carols (Hildegard, Abelard, Planctus Guillelmus)Oxford Camerata
20th-century Secular Music (Debussy, Ravel, Dallapiccola, Regner)Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Allegri Miserere & Other Choral MasterpiecesOxford Camerata
L*us — M*es for 5 Voices & Infelix egoOxford Camerata
German Sacred Music (Bach, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Schoenberg)Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Renaissance Masterpieces (Ockeghem, Lhéritier, Rogier etc.)Oxford Camerata
Fauré — Requiem (1888 reconstruction) & Messe b*eSchola Cantorum of Oxford
Bach — Magnificat BWV 243 & Cantata BWV 82Northern Chamber Orchestra / Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Vivaldi — Gloria RV 589 & Beatus vir RV 597Northern Chamber Orchestra / Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Palestrina / L*us — M*es for 8 Voices & Stabat MaterSchola Cantorum of Oxford
Tye — Missa Euge bone & Peccavimus * patribusOxford Camerata
Purcell — Full Anthems & Organ MusicOxford Camerata
Dufay — Missa L’homme arméOxford Camerata
Ockeghem — Missa L’homme arméOxford Camerata
Josquin — Missa L’homme armé sexti toniOxford Camerata
Hildegard — Heavenly RevelationsOxford Camerata
Schütz — Psalmen DavidsOxford Camerata
English Madrigals & SongsOxford Camerata
Gibbons — Choral & Organ MusicOxford Camerata
Weelkes — AnthemsOxford Camerata
Schütz — The Christmas StoryOxford Camerata
Machaut — Messe de Nostre Dame & Le Voir DitOxford Camerata
Obrecht — Missa CaputOxford Camerata
Willaert — Missa Christus resurgensOxford Camerata
Piæ Cantiones (1582)Oxford Camerata
Duruflé Requiem & Howells MotetsSchola Cantorum of Oxford
Tomkins — Choral & Organ MusicOxford Camerata
Handel — Coronation Anthems & Silete ventiTallis Chamber Choir / Royal Academy Consort
John Streeting — Sacred musicChoir of Christ Church, Chelsea
Gombert — MotetsOxford Camerata
Mozart — RequiemMembers of BBCSO, LPO, LSO, RPO, GFO etc.
Tallis — Spem in alium, Missa Salve intemerataOxford Camerata
Tavener — Lament for Jerusalem (Jerusalem version)Choir of London & Orchestra
Hildegard — Celestial HarmoniesOxford Camerata
Children of our Time (Tippett, Rodrigues, Pott, Byrchmore, O’Neill, Pitts)Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Schumann — PartsongsOxford Camerata / Graham Johnson
Publications
Fair Oriana, edited by Jeremy SummerlyGaudete – Medieval Songs and Carols (Faber Music, 1999)
P*etime with Good Company – Medieval Songs and Carols (Faber Music, 2000)
Fair Oriana – Madrigals in Celebration of Elizabeth I (Faber Music, 2002)
Thomas Tallis – English Sacred Music (Faber Music, 2004)
‘Vocal Performance before c.1430’ Cambridge History of Musical Performance (CUP, 2013)
‘Choir’ Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music (CUP, 2018)
‘Guido d’Arezzo’ Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music (CUP, 2018)
References
External links
- oxfordcamerata.com
- https://www.naxos.com/person/Jeremy_Summerly
- gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers
- twitter.com/jsummerly
- St Luke's Choir Chelsea SW3 - YouTube
- https://www.jeremysummerly.com