MARTIN BUSSEY was born in London in 1958 and educated at Haberdasher’s Aske’s School, Elstree before reading Music at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar. He studied singing with John Carol Case and Composition with Robin Holloway, before moving to the RNCM for Postgraduate study. Since 1988 he has taught at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, where he currently holds the post of Head of Academic Music and Director of Choirs. He directs Chetham’s Chamber Choir and the Chester Bach Singers as well as singing regularly with the Choir of Manchester Cathedral and as a soloist across the UK. He is a registered Inspector with the Independent Schools Inspectorate, in which role he has inspected the music of most of the country’s leading Independent schools. He has a great interest in the connection between words and music, giving regular recital and lecture programmes focussing on settings of individual poets (Housman, Hardy and Gurney) and the output of English song composers in general.
