Robert Quinney carries on a long English tradition of conducting collegiate choirs, performing as an organ soloist, and teaching. Since 2014, he has been the conductor of the New College Choir, Oxford.
Quinney was born in 1976 in Nottingham, U.K. As with so many other figures in the field of English choral music, he began his musical career as a boy chorister at Dundee Cathedral and then at All Saints Ecclesall Church in Sheffield; at the latter institution, he learned to play the organ. Quinney attended the boarding school Eton College on a scholarship and then went on to Ki...