Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury

As Stephen Cleobury approached his retirement as music director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, in 2019, he could look back on an extraordinary career during which he had fundamentally shaped that venerable institution artistically. He has championed contemporary music to a degree unusual for a conductor at the heart of the English choral tradition. Cleobury (pronounced "CLOW-bury" with the first syllable rhyming with "how") was born in Bromley, in Kent County in south east England, on December 31, 1948. His younger brother, Nicholas Cleobury, is also a conductor....