Richard Hickox >
Biography
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| Richard Hickox – Highlights of his remarkable life | |
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| 1948 | Born at Stokenchurch, Bucks, son of Rev’d Sidney Hickox and Jean Millar, on 5th March |
| 1959 | Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe |
| 1966 | Royal Academy of Music (LRAM) |
| 1967 | Organ Scholar, Queens’ College, Cambridge (MA, ChM) (to 1970) studying with Sir David Willcocks and George Guest |
| 1967 | Founded Woburn Singers and Festival (to 1989, then President) |
| 1968 | FRCO (cncl memb) |
| 1970 | Organist and Director of Music, High Wycombe Parish Church (to 1972) |
| 1970 | Appointed Honorary Fellow, Queens’ College, Cambridge |
| 1971 | Founded Richard Hickox Singers and Orchestra |
| 1971 | Founder and Music Director, City of London Sinfonia |
| 1972 | Organist and Master of Music, St Margaret’s, Westminster(to 1982) |
| 1973 | Debut at Promenade Concert, Royal Albert Hall |
| 1974 | Artistic Director, St. Endellion Easter Festival (to 2006) |
| 1976 | Founder and Artistic Director, Spitalfields Festival (to 1994) |
| 1976 | Director, London Symphony Chorus (to 1991) |
| 1978 | Music Director, Bradford Festival Choral Society |
| 1979 | Artistic Director, St. Endellion Summer Festival |
| 1980 | Principal Guest Conductor, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (to 1984) |
| 1981 | Music Director, Truro Festival |
| 1982 | Artistic Director, Northern Sinfonia (Emeritus Conductor from 1990) |
| 1985 | Associate Guest Conductor, London Symphony Orchestra |
| 1988 | First recording projects with Chandos Records
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| 1989 | Director, Chester Summer Music Festival |
| 1990 | Co-Founder, Collegium Musicum 90 |
| 1992 | Principal Guest Conductor, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (to 1995) |
| 1992 | Exclusive Contract with Chandos Records |
| 1992 | Gramophone Award for best choral recording (Britten’s War Requiem) |
| 1994 | Artistic Director, City of London Festival |
| 1994 | Second Gramophone Award for best choral recording (Delius’ Sea Drift) |
| 1995 | Royal Philharmonic Society Award (for cycle of VW symphonies – the first ever – with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in London and Bournemouth) |
| 1995 | Gramophone Opera Award (for Walton’s Troilus and Cressida) |
| 1997 | Music Director, Spoleto Festival (to 2002) |
| 1997 | Music Director, Vision of Albion Opera Festival for RVW |
| 2000 | Principal Conductor, BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Emeritus Conductor from 2006) |
| 2002 | Appointed CBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours |
| 2003 | Honorary Doctorate of Music, Durham University; Hon Fellow Queens’ College, Cambridge |
| 2005 | Music Director, Opera Australia |
| 2008 | Died in Swansea on 23 November |
| 2009 | Posthumous award of Helpmann Award for Opera Australis’a production of Billy Budd |
