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Simon Halsey
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The Rundfunkchor Berlin
Antalya State Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Simon Halsey

Simon Halsey is one of the world's leading conductors of choral repertoire, regularly conducting prestigious orchestras and choirs both in Europe and North America.

As well as his role of Chief Conductor of the Berlin Radio Choir, he has been Chorus Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus for over 25 years. He is Artistic Director and founder of the dynamic professional choir European Voices, formed at the invitation of Sir Simon Rattle, and is in his fifth season as Principal Conductor of the Choral Programme for The Sage Gateshead. Halsey also holds the position of consultant editor for Faber Music in the UK.

Halsey regularly conducts major choral projects with some of the world's greatest orchestras, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra.

Halsey has worked on countless major recording projects, many of which have won major awards including several Gramophone Awards and Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. In 2008 Halsey received a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for the recording of Brahms' Requiem with Berliner Philarmoniker and Rattle and in 2009 received the same award for Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms also with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Rattle.