Harry Christophers

Conductor Harry Christophers is known internationally as the founder and director of the Sixteen. Earning accolades and awards for recordings with that group and the Handel and Haydn Society, Christophers has also taken up the baton at opera houses and festivals in Europe. With the Sixteen, he established the Coro label in 2001, and has issued more than 150 recordings since. Christophers was born on December 26, 1953, in Goudhurst, Kent, England. He was educated at the Canterbury Cathedral Choir School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He founded the Sixteen and its accompanying ...