Neil MacKenzie is a graduate of Clare College, Cambridge and was a full-time member of the internationally acclaimed BBC Singers for a number of years. With them he has performed a huge and demanding repertoire of every style and period and sung in broadcasts from venues all over the world. Neil has worked regularly with Boulez, Andrew Davis, Noseda, Rattle, Hickox, Eliot Gardiner and many other leading conductors.

 

As well as being an established soloist on the concert platform and in recordings, Neil’s versatile music career has developed in the education outreach programme of the BBC, leading workshop sessions with youth choirs and school groups in both the Albert Hall and Camden Roundhouse and working with choirs of all ages across the UK. He has also conducted the BBC Singers in concert. Neil’s commitment to chamber choir performance has enjoyed its strongest expression in Voix de Vivre, which under his direction has established a reputation for choral excellence. He was also a founder member of The Sixteen choir.