Simon Brown has been the director of music at King's College School in Cambridge since 1999 and has been the director of King's Voices

King's Voices

King's Voices is the mixed-voice chapel choir of King's College, Cambridge.It was founded in 1997 primarily to give female students of the college the opportunity to sing in the chapel, because the main chapel choir is all-male...

 since 2001. He was a choral volunteer in King's College Choir

Choir of King's College, Cambridge

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge is one of today's most accomplished and renowned representatives of the great British choral tradition. It was created by King Henry VI, who founded King's College, Cambridge in 1441, to provide daily singing in his Chapel, which remains the main task of the...

 in the late 1970s, and since then has sung in the choirs of New College, Oxford

New College, Oxford

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, Winchester Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe...

, Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey

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 and Her Majesty's Chapels Royal

Chapel Royal

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 (St James' Palace). His teaching career began at Bradford Grammar School in Yorkshire, and was followed by 12 years as Head of Academic and Choral Music at the Purcell School

Purcell School

The Purcell School is a specialist music school for children, located in the town of Bushey, south Hertfordshire, England, and is the oldest specialist music school in the UK. The school was awarded the UNESCO Mozart Medal in 2003, which was received on behalf of the school by Prince Charles, who...

. His time at the Purcell School included conducting the youngest ever choir to sing Tallis'

Thomas Tallis

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 40-part choral work Spem In Alium.

Brown's work with King's Voices has included evensongs in chapel on Mondays in full term, visits to Ely Cathedral

Ely Cathedral

Ely Cathedral is the principal church of the Diocese of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England, and is the seat of the Bishop of Ely and a suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon...

 and St George's Chapel, Windsor, and tours to Venice, Florence, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Rome. His musical hobbies include composition (the introit Thee We Adore, O Hidden Saviour, Thee was premiered on BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3

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's Choral Evensong in 2006 and his new carol There is no rose was sung in the Advent Procession at York Minster this year) and recorder-playing.