Michael Procter

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Procter, Michael (born 1951) - British musician

Michael Procter was educated at Christ's Hospital, Bristol University, the Royal Academy of Music and City University, London. He began directing choral groups while still at school, and while still a student at the RAM was invited to create and direct the Consort of the Royal Academy of Music. He has become well-known above all for his work in the field of Renaissance sacred music, where his work may be divided into three principal areas:

- director of courses for singers, choirmasters, church musicians and teachers. These courses include the International Academy of Sacred Music in Venice, founded 1992, a regular Summer Academy at the Abbaye St Martin de Mondaye, in Normandy, a Christmas Octave event at Mont Ste Odile in Alsace, and weekend courses in different parts of England and Germany.

- editor and publisher of Renaissance repertoire. His catalogue, maintained online at www.Edition-MP.com includes some 600 entries.

- Founder and Director of the international male-voice ensemble Hofkapelle, which specialises in the authentic performance of sacred music of the Renaissance, with a particular interest in the repertoire of the Imperial Hofkapelle of Maximilian I.

Michael Procter is also active as a singing teacher, and is frequently invited to lead masterclasses with existing choirs and ensembles. He married in 1995 the German painter and teacher Claudia Kehlenbeck, with whom he lives in Karlsruhe. Their son Benedict was born in 1999 and christened Benedictus in the Abbey of Mondaye that August.

Michael Procter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts