Ben de Souza

Ben de Souza is the Founding Director of the choir at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He is currently Musical Director of Farnham & Bourne Choral Society and Newbury Chamber Choir, and Director of Music at Earley St Peter’s Church. In 2023 he was appointed the first Musical Director of Godalming Choral Society’s Children’s Choir programme. Ben has previously worked with Taplow Choirs, John Lewis Partnership, Finchley Children’s Music Group, Invicta Voices, and All Souls, Langham Place. He regularly deputises as a conductor and singer for choirs across the south of England.

As a choral singer Ben has sung with the award winning Taplow Youth Choir (Gillian Dibden MBE) and Magdalene College Chapel Choir, Cambridge (Graham Walker), and held a choral scholarship with King’s Voices, Cambridge (Ben Parry). He has performed in some of Europe’s most prestigious choral music venues, and has also appeared on recordings with a handful of the country’s finest choirs including the Gabrieli Consort (Paul McCreesh), the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (Sir Stephen Cleobury), and Voces8. Ben has studied singing with Alexander Ashworth and Richard Edgar-Wilson.

His credits as a bass/baritone soloist include performances of Haydn’s The Creation, Jenkins’ The Armed Man, and Faure’s Requiem.

Ben holds an MMus in Choral Studies from the University of Cambridge, where he studied conducting with some of the world’s leading choral musicians including Stephen Layton, Graham Ross, Andrew Nethsingha and Sarah MacDonald.

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