Jeremy Summerly
Jeremy Summerly is a British conductor. He was educated at Lichfield Cathedral School, Winchester College, and New College, Oxford. While at Oxford he conducted the New College Chamber Orchestra and the Oxford Chamber Choir. After graduating with a first-class honours degree in music in 1982, he started work as a studio manager for BBC Radio, while pursuing postgraduate research in historical musicology at King's College London. Since 1991 he has been a presenter and reviewer for BBC's Radios 3 and 4, in particular for Radio 4's Front Row, and Radio 3's Record Review.
Since 1983 he has been conductor of the mixed-voice consort at the Edington Music Festival, and in 2012 he was appointed artistic director of Mayfield Festival of Music and the Arts, where he is also conductor of Mayfield Festival Choir.
He founded Oxford Camerata in 1984. In 1989, he was appointed lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was head of academic studies from 1996 to 2007, and thereafter head of continuing professional development. He was conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford from 1990 to 1996. He was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in 2006, and in 2015 he became their Sterndale Bennett Visiting Lecturer in Music.
In 2010, he was appointed director of music at St Luke's Church, Chelsea. He conducted the choir of The Queen's College, Oxford for the 2013–14 academic year, and was director of music at St Peter's College, Oxford, from 2015 to 2019. In 2017, he was made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music and he was Visiting Professor of Music History at Gresham College from 2019 to 2022. He has taught at Caius College, Cambridge since 2020, where he is Director of Studies in Music. For Lent Term of 2024 he was Director of Music at Caius as sabbatical cover.
Discography
20th-century Sacred MusicSchola Cantorum of Oxford
Lamentations
Oxford Camerata
Palestrina — Missae Papae Marcelli & Aeterna Christi munera
Oxford Camerata
Portuguese Requiem Masses
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Byrd — Masses for 4 and 5 Voices & Infelix ego
Oxford Camerata
Victoria — Missae O magnum mysterium & O quam gloriosum
Oxford Camerata
Tallis — Mass for Four Voices & Motets
Oxford Camerata
Gesualdo — Complete Sacred Music for 5 Voices
Oxford Camerata
Medieval Carols
Oxford Camerata
20th-century Secular Music
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Allegri Miserere & Other Choral Masterpieces
Oxford Camerata
Lassus — Masses for 5 Voices & Infelix ego
Oxford Camerata
German Sacred Music
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Renaissance Masterpieces
Oxford Camerata
Fauré — Requiem ''& Messe basse
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Bach — Magnificat BWV 243 & Cantata BWV 82
Northern Chamber Orchestra / Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Vivaldi — Gloria RV 589 & Beatus vir RV 597
Northern Chamber Orchestra / Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Palestrina / Lassus — Masses for 8 Voices & Stabat Mater
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Tye — Missa Euge bone & Peccavimus cum patribus
Oxford Camerata
Purcell — Full Anthems & Organ Music
Oxford Camerata
Dufay — Missa L’homme armé
Oxford Camerata
Ockeghem — Missa L’homme armé
Oxford Camerata
Josquin — Missa L’homme armé sexti toni
Oxford Camerata
Hildegard — Heavenly Revelations
Oxford Camerata
Schütz — Psalmen Davids
Oxford Camerata
English Madrigals & Songs
Oxford Camerata
Gibbons — Choral & Organ Music
Oxford Camerata
Weelkes — Anthems
Oxford Camerata
Schütz — The Christmas Story
Oxford Camerata
Machaut — Messe de Nostre Dame & Le Voir Dit
Oxford Camerata
Obrecht — Missa Caput
Oxford Camerata
Willaert — Missa Christus resurgens
Oxford Camerata
Piæ Cantiones
Oxford Camerata
Duruflé Requiem & Howells Motets
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Tomkins — Choral & Organ Music
Oxford Camerata
Handel — Coronation Anthems & Silete venti
Tallis Chamber Choir / Royal Academy Consort
John Streeting — Sacred music
Choir of Christ Church, Chelsea
Gombert — Motets
Oxford Camerata
Mozart — Requiem
Members of BBCSO, LPO, LSO, RPO, GFO etc.
Tallis — Spem in alium, Missa Salve intemerata
Oxford Camerata
Tavener — Lament for Jerusalem
Choir of London & Orchestra
Hildegard — Celestial Harmonies
Oxford Camerata
Children of our Time
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Schumann — Partsongs''
Oxford Camerata / Graham Johnson
Publications
Gaudete – Medieval Songs and CarolsPassetime with Good Company – Medieval Songs and Carols
Fair Oriana – Madrigals in Celebration of Elizabeth I
Thomas Tallis – English Sacred Music
‘Vocal Performance before c.1430’ Cambridge History of Musical Performance
‘Choir’ Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music
‘Guido d’Arezzo’ ''Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music''