Gavin Carr

Gavin Carr is a British conductor and baritone working with major choruses in the UK and appearing in opera and concert in the UK and around the globe.

Carr is Music Director of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bath Minerva Choir, and Founder-Director of Chorus Angelorum. He is a guest conductor with the BBC Symphony Chorus and the Philharmonia Chorus His schedule includes opera and concert performances in Europe and further afield, workshops and masterclasses across the UK, and affiliations with colleges such as Chetham's School of Music and Bath Spa University. He is the brother of composer Paul Carr.

Carr was born in London, the son of Adelaide soprano and Covent Garden Prima Donna Una Hale and Theatre Consultant Martin Carr. He studied at Michael Hall, a Steiner School, and Hurstpierpoint College before going to up to King's College, Cambridge to read music and art history, where he was a Choral Scholar in the celebrated Chapel Choir. He was a founder member with Stephen Layton of celebrated chamber choir Polyphony. After university he emigrated to Australia for five years, where he began his singing and conducting careers working with the Victoria State Opera and the leading-contemporary music group, the Elision Ensemble. He then studied in the US, with Dickson Titus in San Francisco, and at the Ravinia Festival Steans Institute in Chicago with Hakan Hagegard, Barbara Bonney, Martin Katz and Philip Moll. Returning to London he studied with Janice Chapman, and at the Britten-Pears School at Snape, Suffolk, studying with Elly Ameling, Hugues Cuenod, Suzanne Danco, and Galina Vishnevskaya.

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