Will Sims
Composer / Performer
Will Sims is the Director of Chapel Music at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he directs the Chapel Choir for their twice weekly services and concert, tour, and recording schedule. He is also responsible for the wider choral music programme in the college. Between 2018-2021, he was the Director of Music at University College, Durham, where he conducted and managed the Castle’s renowned Choir. In 2020, he directed the Choir’s first recording on the Priory Records label, “In Memoriam”, (featuring Durufle’s Requiem and Parry’s Songs of Farewell) to acclaim; movements from the recording were later broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He is a prize-winning Choral Director of the Royal College of Organists.
Will is an experienced singer and has sung with the Cathedral Choirs of Lincoln, Peterborough, and St Mary’s, Edinburgh; he has broadcast on BBC One and as a soloist live on Radio 3. He is in demand as a collaborative pianist and holds a Diploma from The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music; recent engagements include recitals of English Song in the Edinburgh Festival, Croydon Minster, and Cambridge. His compositions have been performed in Cathedrals around the country, broadcast live internationally, and premiered in the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.
Will completed his Masters’ and undergraduate degrees at Durham University, specialising in the construction, context, and performance of 19th and 20th century British music. He was awarded a First-Class for his dissertation exploring the theology of Herbert Howells’ Hymnus Paradisi under Professor Jeremy Dibble.
Biographical Details
- Year of birth: 1998
- Director of The Chapel Choir of Robinson College, Cambridge
Works by Will Sims
- Christ is risen from the dead
- God be in my head
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis after Herbert Howells
- Missa Festiva
- Psallite Domino
- Watch, O Lord
Festival performances of works by Will Sims
Call for Scores submissionWorld premiereLondon premiere
LFCCM 2024
- Choral Evensong on Sunday 12 May 2024 at St Mary Magdalene, Richmond
- Choral Compline on Tuesday 14 May 2024 at Robinson College, Cambridge
- “The Hunt of the Unicorn” on Saturday 18 May 2024 at St George’s Bloomsbury
LFCCM 2023
- Choral Eucharist on Wednesday 17 May 2023 at St Pancras Parish Church
- LFCCM @ Home Choral Evensong on Wednesday 17 May 2023 (online stream/broadcast)
- Solemn Mass on Sunday 21 May 2023 at St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater
- Choral Evening Service on Sunday 21 May 2023 at Robinson College, Cambridge
- Choral Evensong on Sunday 11 June 2023 at Hampstead Parish Church
LFCCM 2022
- Choral Evensong on Sunday 8 May 2022 at St Pancras Parish Church
Works performed by Will Sims
Call for Scores submissionWorld premiereLondon premiere
- All shall be well Eleanor Haward
- And it shall come to pass Simon Brown
- Behold, now, praise the Lord Elliott Park
- Come, Holy Ghost Maddie Melville-Smith
- Evening Service in D George Dyson
- I got me flowers Jeremy Thurlow
- Lift up your heads Elliott Park
- O Lord, support us Ben Ponniah
- Preces and Responses Bernard Rose
- Psallite Domino Will Sims
- The Call Gail Randall
- The earth was without form Marisse Cato
- Unto the Father Sarah Cattley
- Watch, O Lord Will Sims
Festival performances by Will Sims
Call for Scores submissionWorld premiereLondon premiere
LFCCM 2024
- Choral Evening Service on Sunday 12 May 2024 at Robinson College, Cambridge
- Choral Compline on Tuesday 14 May 2024 at Robinson College, Cambridge
- Choral Evening Service on Sunday 19 May 2024 at Robinson College, Cambridge
LFCCM 2023
- Choral Evening Service on Sunday 14 May 2023 at Robinson College, Cambridge
- Choral Evensong on Tuesday 16 May 2023 at Robinson College, Cambridge
- Choral Evening Service on Sunday 21 May 2023 at Robinson College, Cambridge
Recorded performances of works by Will Sims
LFCCM 2022
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis after Herbert Howells performed by The Choir of St Pancras Parish Church / Christopher Batchelor Conductor / Paul Plummer Organ
