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Ken Burton (born Kenneth Mark Burton; 5 January 1970) is a British chorist, composer and performer.
Burton first gained national attention when two of his choirs (The London Adventist Chorale and the Croydon Seventh-day Adventist Gospel Choir) placed first and second in the prestigious Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition, broadcast nationally in the UK on the British Broadcasting Corporation. His choral activities also involves directorship of BBC Songs of Praise session choir, Adventist Vocal Ensemble (AVE). Burton also formed, and performs with, the a cappella group Tessera, also a regular on BBC Songs of Praise. In addition to his choral and vocal work, he has published several books with Oxford University Press and Faber Music. Burton first gained national attention when two of his choirs (The London Adventist Chorale and the Croydon Seventh-day Adventist Gospel Choir) placed first and second in the prestigious Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition sponsored by the British Broadcasting Corporation. His choral activities also involves directorship of BBC Songs of Praise session choir, Adventist Vocal Ensemble (AVE). Burton also formed, and performs with, the a cappella group Tessera, also a regular on BBC Songs of Praise. In addition to his choral and vocal work, he has published several books with Oxford University Press and Faber Music. As a conductor, singer, and instrumentalist, he has performed on many of the world's major stages including Wembley Stadium, Toronto Sky Dome, Universal Studios (Florida), Sydney Opera House and the Royal Albert Hall.
His orchestral music has been played by several of the UK's leading orchestras, among them BBC Orchestra and CBSO.
He has worked as a musical director, arranger, and collaborator with many of the world's leading names, among them opera singers Bryn Terfel and Lesley Garrett, gospel singers, including Donnie McClurkin, Andraé Crouch and Helen Baylor, and has worked as a session musician for the UK's largest television show, "The X Factor", and the "US X Factor" where he has contracted choirs, recorded soundtrack choral parts, and done choral arrangements for the world's leading artists, among them Beyoncé, Christian Aguilera, will.i.am, Robbie Williams, and Leona Lewis.
He has worked extensively with producer Nigel Wright and with Capital Voices director Annie Skates for much of the "X-Factor" work he has done, as well as for other recording projects, among them Andrea Ross and Michael Ball.
In 2010, he was asked to assist in shaping an arrangement for a song of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. This song was to be a gospel flavoured arrangement of Webber's Song "Love Never Dies", to be recorded by Nicole Scherzinger.
The song was subsequently recorded, produced by Nigel Wright, with choral arrangements by Annie Skates. Burton provided the choir.
In 2007, he was commissioned to write a piece of music for double chorus, for a BBC Radio broadcast of a special service at St Johns College, Cambridge, to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. This piece was performed by the London Adventist Chorale and the choir of St John's College Cambridge. The a cappella work which drew the African-American and Anglican choral traditions together was entitled "Let The Sound Of Freedom", and involved the choirs interweaving their own genre with the other choir, and borrowing from each other's choral genre.
A number of other collaborative pieces were written and subsequently recorded by the two choirs, although to date the recording has not been released.
Burton has established a recording legacy, often investing his wages, when he first started working as a music teacher, into recordings and recording equipment. He produced a number of recordings with the Croydon Seventh-Day Adventist Gospel Choir, the first being "Until We Reach", which was a showcase of the choir's diversity, with a selection of songs which included an a cappella Classical piece in Latin, an a cappella African piece in the Nigerian Yoruba tongue, Latin American, and many more. Whilst Burton readily admits it was 'lacking in production experience', it was widely appreciated and its song selection still loved by many who follow the choir today. Its reception was positive, with Steve Flashman on LBC radio saying the album was a 'must for every household'. The best endorsement came from HRH Prince Charles, to whom a copy was personally given following a performance by Ken Burton and his choirs on a special Royal Gala television programme. Prince Charles sent a personal letter to Ken to say how much he had enjoyed the recording.
Whilst Burton records a large number of his works in larger commercial studios, he still maintains his private studio where he is able to do additional projects and additional recording for the larger projects.
Burton has been presented to Her Majesty the Queen on five occasions: two Commonwealth days, Golden Jubilee 2002 where he directed the London Adventist Chorale singing two of his arrangements of African American Spirituals at Buckingham Palace, the re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall Royal Gala Concert, and at a special jubilee multi-faith environment programme. All three of the choral entities he looks after: The Croydon SDA Gospel Choir, London Adventist Chorale, and Adventist Vocal Ensemble, have performed, either uniquely or in collaboration, for numerous concerts attended Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal family.
KEN BURTON (OFFICIAL SITE):
Ken Burton’s musical activities cover a wide range of genres and roles, internationally. He regularly directs two choirs - the London Adventist Chorale, and Croydon SDA Gospel Choir, and following the latter’s involvement in several BBC ‘Songs Of Praise’ performances, founded the session broadcast choir The Adventist Vocal Ensemble, out of which came a quartet, Tessera, which he founded and sings with regularly on ‘Songs Of Praise’ programmes.
He has several of his choral works published by Faber Music, Oxford University Press and RSCM, and is a regular adjudicator for ‘Choir Of The Year’ - the very competition where, in 1994, he had his two regular choirs in the same final, the London Adventist Chorale winning. He was also one of the judges for Channel 4’s Gospel Singers Of The Year, and also judges for BBC Young Chorister of The Year.
He has appeared and worked extensively on some of the biggest programmes on British television and internationally, among them Songs Of Praise (BBC) The X Factor (ITV), The X Factor USA(Fox), Britain's Got Talent (ITV), Prom At The Palace (BBC), Eastenders (BBC), Soul Noel (BBC) and numerous others. His roles on the programmes have included performing, vocal contracting, conducting, arranging, musical directing, and production. In 2013 he was one of six invited choral figures to guest present on BBC Radio 3's The Choir, where he explored the changing face and settings of gospel music. His Adventist Vocal Ensemble has been a regular contributor to the biggest days in the calendar (Easter and Christmas) for BBC Radio 2 Good Morning Sunday. Ken has contributed extensively to numerous programmes on The Hope Channel, an international television channel owned and operated by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church organisation.
His work, however, is not confined to the genre of gospel music. He also has a strong background of (and actually studied) Classical music, and has worked as a chorusmaster training choirs to sing large-scale works such as Verdi Requiem, and Brahm’s Deutsche Requiem. He has conducted, written and arranged numerous choral and orchestral works for orchestras including London Mozart Players, CBSO, Orchestra Of The Swan, and various BBC orchestras. He conducted the 60th annual performance of Handel’s Messiah at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington DC. He was a 2012 guest on Proms Plus, preceding a concert which included Tippett’s A Child Of Our Time, and has conducted and performed at the Proms.
In addition to his regular performance based activities, he has been involved with the Kijani Kenya Trust - a UK based charity which raises funds for HIV and conservation projects in Kenya. His trips to Kenya have involved visits to a large number of orphanages, where music education work is carried out with the orphans, who often have the opportunity to perform on stage as part of the major music festival.
In 2012, the year of the Olympics, he worked as a vocal coach for the UK Charity Youth Music’s cultural olympiad choir Youth Music Voices which performed at venues including WOMAD and the Royal Opera House.
http://www.kenburton.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Burton first gained national attention when two of his choirs (The London Adventist Chorale and the Croydon Seventh-day Adventist Gospel Choir) placed first and second in the prestigious Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition, broadcast nationally in the UK on the British Broadcasting Corporation. His choral activities also involves directorship of BBC Songs of Praise session choir, Adventist Vocal Ensemble (AVE). Burton also formed, and performs with, the a cappella group Tessera, also a regular on BBC Songs of Praise. In addition to his choral and vocal work, he has published several books with Oxford University Press and Faber Music. Burton first gained national attention when two of his choirs (The London Adventist Chorale and the Croydon Seventh-day Adventist Gospel Choir) placed first and second in the prestigious Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition sponsored by the British Broadcasting Corporation. His choral activities also involves directorship of BBC Songs of Praise session choir, Adventist Vocal Ensemble (AVE). Burton also formed, and performs with, the a cappella group Tessera, also a regular on BBC Songs of Praise. In addition to his choral and vocal work, he has published several books with Oxford University Press and Faber Music. As a conductor, singer, and instrumentalist, he has performed on many of the world's major stages including Wembley Stadium, Toronto Sky Dome, Universal Studios (Florida), Sydney Opera House and the Royal Albert Hall.
His orchestral music has been played by several of the UK's leading orchestras, among them BBC Orchestra and CBSO.
He has worked as a musical director, arranger, and collaborator with many of the world's leading names, among them opera singers Bryn Terfel and Lesley Garrett, gospel singers, including Donnie McClurkin, Andraé Crouch and Helen Baylor, and has worked as a session musician for the UK's largest television show, "The X Factor", and the "US X Factor" where he has contracted choirs, recorded soundtrack choral parts, and done choral arrangements for the world's leading artists, among them Beyoncé, Christian Aguilera, will.i.am, Robbie Williams, and Leona Lewis.
He has worked extensively with producer Nigel Wright and with Capital Voices director Annie Skates for much of the "X-Factor" work he has done, as well as for other recording projects, among them Andrea Ross and Michael Ball.
In 2010, he was asked to assist in shaping an arrangement for a song of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. This song was to be a gospel flavoured arrangement of Webber's Song "Love Never Dies", to be recorded by Nicole Scherzinger.
The song was subsequently recorded, produced by Nigel Wright, with choral arrangements by Annie Skates. Burton provided the choir.
In 2007, he was commissioned to write a piece of music for double chorus, for a BBC Radio broadcast of a special service at St Johns College, Cambridge, to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. This piece was performed by the London Adventist Chorale and the choir of St John's College Cambridge. The a cappella work which drew the African-American and Anglican choral traditions together was entitled "Let The Sound Of Freedom", and involved the choirs interweaving their own genre with the other choir, and borrowing from each other's choral genre.
A number of other collaborative pieces were written and subsequently recorded by the two choirs, although to date the recording has not been released.
Burton has established a recording legacy, often investing his wages, when he first started working as a music teacher, into recordings and recording equipment. He produced a number of recordings with the Croydon Seventh-Day Adventist Gospel Choir, the first being "Until We Reach", which was a showcase of the choir's diversity, with a selection of songs which included an a cappella Classical piece in Latin, an a cappella African piece in the Nigerian Yoruba tongue, Latin American, and many more. Whilst Burton readily admits it was 'lacking in production experience', it was widely appreciated and its song selection still loved by many who follow the choir today. Its reception was positive, with Steve Flashman on LBC radio saying the album was a 'must for every household'. The best endorsement came from HRH Prince Charles, to whom a copy was personally given following a performance by Ken Burton and his choirs on a special Royal Gala television programme. Prince Charles sent a personal letter to Ken to say how much he had enjoyed the recording.
Whilst Burton records a large number of his works in larger commercial studios, he still maintains his private studio where he is able to do additional projects and additional recording for the larger projects.
Burton has been presented to Her Majesty the Queen on five occasions: two Commonwealth days, Golden Jubilee 2002 where he directed the London Adventist Chorale singing two of his arrangements of African American Spirituals at Buckingham Palace, the re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall Royal Gala Concert, and at a special jubilee multi-faith environment programme. All three of the choral entities he looks after: The Croydon SDA Gospel Choir, London Adventist Chorale, and Adventist Vocal Ensemble, have performed, either uniquely or in collaboration, for numerous concerts attended Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal family.
KEN BURTON (OFFICIAL SITE):
Ken Burton’s musical activities cover a wide range of genres and roles, internationally. He regularly directs two choirs - the London Adventist Chorale, and Croydon SDA Gospel Choir, and following the latter’s involvement in several BBC ‘Songs Of Praise’ performances, founded the session broadcast choir The Adventist Vocal Ensemble, out of which came a quartet, Tessera, which he founded and sings with regularly on ‘Songs Of Praise’ programmes.
He has several of his choral works published by Faber Music, Oxford University Press and RSCM, and is a regular adjudicator for ‘Choir Of The Year’ - the very competition where, in 1994, he had his two regular choirs in the same final, the London Adventist Chorale winning. He was also one of the judges for Channel 4’s Gospel Singers Of The Year, and also judges for BBC Young Chorister of The Year.
He has appeared and worked extensively on some of the biggest programmes on British television and internationally, among them Songs Of Praise (BBC) The X Factor (ITV), The X Factor USA(Fox), Britain's Got Talent (ITV), Prom At The Palace (BBC), Eastenders (BBC), Soul Noel (BBC) and numerous others. His roles on the programmes have included performing, vocal contracting, conducting, arranging, musical directing, and production. In 2013 he was one of six invited choral figures to guest present on BBC Radio 3's The Choir, where he explored the changing face and settings of gospel music. His Adventist Vocal Ensemble has been a regular contributor to the biggest days in the calendar (Easter and Christmas) for BBC Radio 2 Good Morning Sunday. Ken has contributed extensively to numerous programmes on The Hope Channel, an international television channel owned and operated by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church organisation.
His work, however, is not confined to the genre of gospel music. He also has a strong background of (and actually studied) Classical music, and has worked as a chorusmaster training choirs to sing large-scale works such as Verdi Requiem, and Brahm’s Deutsche Requiem. He has conducted, written and arranged numerous choral and orchestral works for orchestras including London Mozart Players, CBSO, Orchestra Of The Swan, and various BBC orchestras. He conducted the 60th annual performance of Handel’s Messiah at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington DC. He was a 2012 guest on Proms Plus, preceding a concert which included Tippett’s A Child Of Our Time, and has conducted and performed at the Proms.
In addition to his regular performance based activities, he has been involved with the Kijani Kenya Trust - a UK based charity which raises funds for HIV and conservation projects in Kenya. His trips to Kenya have involved visits to a large number of orphanages, where music education work is carried out with the orphans, who often have the opportunity to perform on stage as part of the major music festival.
In 2012, the year of the Olympics, he worked as a vocal coach for the UK Charity Youth Music’s cultural olympiad choir Youth Music Voices which performed at venues including WOMAD and the Royal Opera House.
http://www.kenburton.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.