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 A chorister from the age of seven, Philip Cave has been involved with choral music all his life. He studied music at Oxford University with Simon Preston and was a Choral Scholar and Lay-clerk at Christ Church Cathedral, where he also directed the College Choir, the Cathedral Voluntary Choir, and sang with the Schola Cantorum and the Clerkes of Oxenford. During the following years, he taught music, performed as a soloist and conducted several ensembles including the Oxford Harmonic Society, a city choir of 120 voices, with whom he performed much of the standard choral society repertoire.
He was a founding member of the Tallis Scholars with whom he gave over 400 performances, and for many years a lay-clerk in New College Choir, directed by Edward Higginbottom.
He has performed, toured and recorded with the Hilliard Ensemble, The Sixteen, the Choir of the English Consort, the King's Consort, the Schütz Choir of London and the Cardinall's Musick.
Since moving to Washington, he has sung with the Washington Bach Consort, including performances at the White House, the Schlesinger Center and the National Cathedral.
As a soloist, he has performed under many celebrated conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Leonard Bernstein and Sir Roger Norrington and at venues including the Beethovenhalle in Bonn and the Sydney Opera House. He has performed frequently at the BBC Promenade Concerts in London, and has shared the concert platform with many distinguished musicians, including Sir Peter Pears, Sting and Sir Paul McCartney.
Philip is founder and conductor of the vocal ensemble Magnificat, which specializes in the restoration and performance of neglected masterworks of the baroque and renaissance periods. The ensemble has toured and performed in England, Spain, Greece and the USA, and has made ten CD recordings, which have attracted much musical acclaim:
"The performances are guaranteed to refresh even the most jaded palate." (Early Music Review)
"A flawlessly blended ensemble that can meet any technical challenge." (American Record Guide)
"Cave and his small chorus spun sustained wonders of supple phrasing and clean textures, supported with sound of clarion purity." (Los Angeles Times)
Active as a vocal and choral clinician and teacher, Philip has led many master-classes and workshops in the UK and USA. He is a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and of Trinity College, London, and an Associate of the Royal College of Music. A recipient of the 2004 American Musicalogical Society’s Noah Greenberg Award, and of the London Handel Society’s Byrne award for performances of the music of Handel, he is also an honorary Fellow of London’s Academy of St Cecilia.
Philip moved to the USA in 2000 and lived in California and Connecticut, prior to moving to Virginia, where he is now Director of Music at Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, and Artistic Director of the Alexandria Choral Society.
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