Gavin Carr conducts extensively throughout the UK and Europe, working with leading orchestras and choruses in major venues. Chorus Master of the Philharmonia Chorus and Chorus Director of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, he collaborates with many of the world’s leading arts organisations and soloists. He has guest conducted the BBC Symphony Chorus and the London Symphony Chorus, and is Founder-Director of Chorus Angelorum, his elite professional choir, with whom he has recorded the choral works of Paul Carr. In 2024 he was appointed Course Director of the new ChoralFest at Dartington Hall, and his Hiroshima War Requiem 2025 project is making waves in the choral world. Establishing himself as a conductor twenty years ago after an international career as a baritone, he has conducted ensembles such as the English Chamber Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bremen Philharmoniker and the Symphony Orchestra of India in a remarkably wide repertoire, from Mahler’s 8th Symphony, Britten’s War Requiem, the Passions of J S Bach, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, to Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. A crucial part of his repertoire is commissioning and promoting major new works such as Blackford’s Not in our Time and Pietá, and Paul Carr’s Seven Last Words from the Cross and Requiem for an Angel. A member of the Vocal Faculty at London's Royal Academy of Music, he teaches some of the brightest vocal talent in the world. His first career as a baritone with international experience across a huge range of repertoire nurtures his work as conductor of major symphony choruses, and he is regarded as one of Europe's leading specialists in this field.