Christopher Bowers-Broadbent is an organist and composer whose playing career, since his debut in the Camden Festival in 1966, has taken him all over the world. In the latest chapter in his career, his appearance on many CDs for ECM (in particular the Part album Trivium, the Gorecki/Bryars CD O Domina nostra, and Messiaen's great Saint Trinite cycle) has brought him widespread recognition. This followed appearances with THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE on the ECM discsArbos, Miserere and the award-winning Passio. He appears most recently on Harmonia Mundi's De Profundis and I am the true vine (both discs featuring the music of Arvo Prt) with Paul Hillier's THEATRE OF VOICES, and a further disc is planned, to include the premiere recording of Arvo Part's Puzzle, written for Chris as a recent birthday celebration.


In May 1995 Bowers-Broadbent's 1972 childrens opera The Pied Piper was performed at Croydon's Fairfield Halls in a London Mozart Players educational project by children from 11 local schools. He is constantly composing, and December 5thlast year saw the premiere of Holy Communion Service for Gray's Inn, which was commissioned by the Inn, and received considerable acclaim. His most recent organ works are two substantial Sequences, which he performed in Tallinn, Estonia, early last year, and two shorter pieces - Office Hymns and All praise - for a 'Theatre of Voices' tour of the States. Recent projects have included the release of recordings of his solo organ pieces Media vita (which he recorded in Gray's Inn Chapel) and Duets & Canons by Kevin Bowyer for Nimbus, in April, and of his anthem Hail bright Cecilia by the Norwegian Choir CON BRIO. He is currently finishing an 35-minute orchestral work A ship bound for Tarshish (based on the Book of Jonah), being a collaboration with painter Elizabeth Hannaford