Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Music and Performing Arts
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Campus: Folkestone
Chris Price was born in Yorkshire and is a graduate of Durham University. He took up a post as Tenor Lay Clerk in Canterbury Cathedral Choir in 1976, and trained as a teacher at Christ Church. In 1979 he became an Associate of the Royal College of Music and a Licentiate of the Royal Academy, and was awarded his MA in 1984.
Chris studied singing with John Carol Case and Ian Partridge, and has enjoyed a solo singing career which has taken him all around England and Europe. With the Cathedral choir he has gained extensive experience in recordings, broadcasts, and on tours in Europe and the USA. He ran a highly successful Performing Arts Department at a Specialist Music School from 1988 to 2006, when he moved to Canterbury Christ Church University to take charge of the new Performing Arts Programme. He has now developed several more new degree programmes for the University, including the innovative Creative Arts| degree which allows students to combine a number of arts disciplines within one programme and the ground-breaking Foundation Degree in Church Music| in collaboration with the RSCM. This teaching experience has led to a number of commissions for contributions to educational books and journals over the years.
As a conductor, Chris directs a Canterbury-based choir, Lees Court Music|, which enjoys a good reputation in and around Kent and abroad and takes a particular interest in music of local composers. He has worked as an animateur and choral workshop director, and he composes music for young voices, with several musicals for schools to his credit.