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Gabriel Crouch
From: London, England. LA Opera: music director for Hildegard (2025, debut).
Gabriel Crouch is a conductor, singer, producer and teacher. He is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Chamber Choir Ireland, founding Artistic Director of the British early music ensemble Gallicantus, and Director of Choral Activities and Professor of the Practice in Music at Princeton University, where he leads a flourishing and all-embracing choral program and teaches courses in conducting, small ensemble singing and opera performance.
His professional singing experiences date back to 1982 as an eight-year-old in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where his solo credits included a royal wedding, and continued with an eight-year tenure in the renowned a cappella group the King’s Singers, with whom he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a Grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world. He performs regularly with Tenebrae, the Tallis Scholars and the Gabrieli Choir, and as a lutesong recitalist has collaborated with such acclaimed lutenists as Jacob Heringman, Liz Kenny, Daniel Swenberg and Nigel North.
Since taking his first academic position in the U.S. in 2005 he has become one of the most respected choral leaders in the country, and is regularly invited to present workshops at Yale, Westminster Choir College, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and elsewhere. He has conducted all-state choirs throughout the United States, and his student choirs have earned performances at several major conferences, with the Princeton Chamber Choir’s performance of Francis Poulenc’s Figure Humaine given the honor of closing the National Collegiate Choral Organization’s annual conference in 2023. In 2025 he was presented with the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.
As a record producer, his credits have included Winchester Cathedral Choir, the Gabrieli Consort and Tenebrae (for whom he produced the acclaimed first recording of Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles in 2005), the Spanish choir El Leon de Oro; and in the U.S., Chanticleer, Ensemble Altera and Skylark, for whom he co-produced the recent grammy-nominated Clear Voices in the Dark (2024).
In the professional realm his recent guest conducting invitations have included Tenebrae, Cappella Romana, the Edvard Grieg Kor in Norway, the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. In 2008 he founded the British early music ensemble Gallicantus, with whom he has released six recordings under the Signum label to rapturous reviews (in the words of Early Music Today – "everything Gallicantus touches turns to gold"). The group has garnered multiple editor’s choice awards in Gramophone magazine, Choir and Organ magazine and The Early Music Review, and, for the 2012 release The Word Unspoken, a place on BBC Radio’s CD Review list of the top nine classical releases of the year. His recording of Lagrime di San Pietro by Orlando di Lasso was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2014, and his follow-up recording Sibylla (featuring music by Orlandus Lassus and Dmitri Tymoczko) was named "star recording" by Choir and Organ magazine in the summer of 2018. The group’s most recent release, Mass for the Endangered, a new composition by Sarah Kirkland Snider released on the Nonesuch/New Amsterdam labels, has garnered high acclaim from the New York Times, Boston Globe, and NPR’s All Things Considered.
Gabriel Crouch is a conductor, singer, producer and teacher. He is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Chamber Choir Ireland, founding Artistic Director of the British early music ensemble Gallicantus, and Director of Choral Activities and Professor of the Practice in Music at Princeton University, where he leads a flourishing and all-embracing choral program and teaches courses in conducting, small ensemble singing and opera performance.
His professional singing experiences date back to 1982 as an eight-year-old in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where his solo credits included a royal wedding, and continued with an eight-year tenure in the renowned a cappella group the King’s Singers, with whom he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a Grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world. He performs regularly with Tenebrae, the Tallis Scholars and the Gabrieli Choir, and as a lutesong recitalist has collaborated with such acclaimed lutenists as Jacob Heringman, Liz Kenny, Daniel Swenberg and Nigel North.
Since taking his first academic position in the U.S. in 2005 he has become one of the most respected choral leaders in the country, and is regularly invited to present workshops at Yale, Westminster Choir College, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and elsewhere. He has conducted all-state choirs throughout the United States, and his student choirs have earned performances at several major conferences, with the Princeton Chamber Choir’s performance of Francis Poulenc’s Figure Humaine given the honor of closing the National Collegiate Choral Organization’s annual conference in 2023. In 2025 he was presented with the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.
As a record producer, his credits have included Winchester Cathedral Choir, the Gabrieli Consort and Tenebrae (for whom he produced the acclaimed first recording of Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles in 2005), the Spanish choir El Leon de Oro; and in the U.S., Chanticleer, Ensemble Altera and Skylark, for whom he co-produced the recent grammy-nominated Clear Voices in the Dark (2024).
In the professional realm his recent guest conducting invitations have included Tenebrae, Cappella Romana, the Edvard Grieg Kor in Norway, the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. In 2008 he founded the British early music ensemble Gallicantus, with whom he has released six recordings under the Signum label to rapturous reviews (in the words of Early Music Today – "everything Gallicantus touches turns to gold"). The group has garnered multiple editor’s choice awards in Gramophone magazine, Choir and Organ magazine and The Early Music Review, and, for the 2012 release The Word Unspoken, a place on BBC Radio’s CD Review list of the top nine classical releases of the year. His recording of Lagrime di San Pietro by Orlando di Lasso was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2014, and his follow-up recording Sibylla (featuring music by Orlandus Lassus and Dmitri Tymoczko) was named "star recording" by Choir and Organ magazine in the summer of 2018. The group’s most recent release, Mass for the Endangered, a new composition by Sarah Kirkland Snider released on the Nonesuch/New Amsterdam labels, has garnered high acclaim from the New York Times, Boston Globe, and NPR’s All Things Considered.