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Kerensa Briggs

Kerensa Briggs is an award-winning composer specialising in choral music. Described as “poignant, ambivalent, quietly devastating music” in the New York Times, her works have been performed internationally at venues including St Paul’s Cathedral and the Sistine Chapel. Her music is regularly performed or broadcast with groups such as Voces 8 and The Sixteen. Her portrait disc Requiem (2023) on Delphian Records placed in the top 30 classical charts and was described as “alluring and heartfelt music” by BBC music magazine. Kerensa was winner of the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Award 2014 and is an alumni of the TheoArtistry Composers scheme at St Andrews’ Institute for Theology and the Arts. She is currently Composer in Residence for St Louis Chamber Chorus. Her love of choral music emanates from her choral background, singing in choirs including Gloucester Cathedral Youth and the choir of King’s College London, where she held a Choral Scholarship and undertook an MMus in Composition.

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