Richard Pantcheff

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Whilst internationally renowned as a composer in many genres, Richard Pantcheff has established a particular reputation as a specialist composer of Choral and Organ music. Many of his works have been commissioned and performed by the major Cathedral and College Choirs of the UK and Germany, including those of Salisbury, Winchester, St Paul’s, and Glasgow Cathedrals, as well as the choirs of Magdalen College and Lincoln College, Oxford, and the Clerks of Christ Church.

His music has been performed extensively in the UK, as well as in the USA, the Caribbean, Germany, Italy, and, most recently, New Zealand. Much of his output for Organ has been published, distributed, and performed around the world, and his choral and organ works have been broadcast in the US, the UK, and the Caribbean.

A large number of his compositions have appeared on commercially-released CDs, to wide critical acclaim, most recent of which has been the recording of Five Elizabethan Lyrics, on the SOMM label..Born in 1978, Clive Driskill-Smith was a Music Scholar at Eton College and then Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at Winchester College for a year.

He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar, with a First Class Honours degree in Music in 1999 and with the MPhil in 2001. A pupil of David Sanger and Hans Fagius, Clive became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists with the Limpus, Shinn and Durrant prizes in 1998 and was awarded the W. T. Best Scholarship by the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 2002.

Winner of the Royal College of Organists’ Performer of the Year Competition and the Calgary International Organ Competition, he is represented in North America by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists and is currently Sub-Organist at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford.