Gabriel Crouch
Host, Sounds ChoralGabriel Crouch is Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer in Music at Princeton University. He began his musical career as an eight-year-old in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where he performed a solo at the wedding of HRH Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson. After completing a choral scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was offered a place in the renowned a cappella group The King's Singers in 1996. In the next eight years he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world.
Since moving to the USA in 2005 he has built an international profile as a conductor and director, with recent engagements in Indonesia, Hawaii and Australia as well as Europe and the continental United States. In 2008 he was appointed musical director of the British early music ensemble 'Gallicantus', with whom he has released six recordings under the Signum label to rapturous reviews, garnering multiple ‘Editor’s Choice’ awards in Gramophone Magazine, Choir and Organ Magazine and the Early Music Review, and, for the 2012 release ‘The Word Unspoken’, a place on BBC Radio’s CD Review list of the top nine classical releases of the year. His recording of Lagrime di San Pietro by Orlando di Lasso was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2014, and his most recent recording - Sibylla (featuring music by Orlandus Lassusand Dmitri Tymozko) was named ’star recording’ by Choir and Organ magazine in the summer of 2018.
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Sounds Choral Host Gabriel Crouch shares music from the participants in the 2022 Hanover A Capella Week this Sunday (5/1) at 2 pm.
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Sounds Choral host Gabriel Crouch this week shares the choral music of Lili Boulanger. Listen Sunday (1/23) at 2 pm.
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Host Gabriel Crouch welcomes Barnaby Smith, Artistic Director of the British vocal ensemble Voces8, to Sounds Choral this Sunday (12/5 at 2 pm) to chat…
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Host Gabriel Crouch reviews all the recordings that made the short list of the 2021 Gramophone Award for choral music. Listen Sunday (10/24) at 2 pm.
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Sounds Choral host Gabriel Crouch this week examines choral music that captures the spirit of the ocean. Listen this Sunday (9/12) at 2 pm.
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Sounds Choral this week features a new release of works by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis highlighting the music of the "Forgotten Peoples" - those who…
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Host Gabriel Crouch presents "Choral Epitaphs," works written by composers to honor their mentors after their death. Enjoy this program this Sunday (4/18)…
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Host Gabriel Crouch is joined by Tim Keeler, the new Music Director of the vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Tune in Sunday (3/7) at 2 pm.
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Sounds Choral host Gabriel Crouch presents choral music based on the works of Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden Sunday (1/24) at 2 pm.
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Sounds Choral presents a special three-week series focusing on the way the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the choral world. Our regular roster of Sounds…