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Ian CurrorDirector of the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Together with his duties at the Royal Hospital, Ian Curror pursues a busy musical career as a solo recitalist and as an organ accompanist and continuo player. He has played at most of the country's leading cathedrals and concert halls and also on tours to Canada, USA and Bermuda. He has recorded for EMI and Guild Music. Other activities include teaching, conducting, examining and adjudicating. He is a professor at the Royal College of Music, a Fellow and Council Member of the Royal College of Organists and Chairman of the Church Music Society. Ian Curror on Guild MusicPage revised 19.04.2001 |
Ian Curror has, since 1974, been Organist of
the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. home of the famous Chelsea Pensioners. He is only the
fourteenth to hold the post since 1693, and the first man to be appointed since 1823.
Among his famous predecessors are Charles Wesley and the music historian Charles Burney
(father of the diarist Fanny Burney). The Royal Hospital maintains a professional Chapel
Choir which performs a wide variety of church music within a liturgical setting, and it
has become established, under Ian Curror's directorship, as one of London's leading church
choirs.