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Christopher Edward de Souza (born 6 June 1943)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chris de Souza biography )〕 is an English composer, teacher, music director, broadcaster, opera producer and author. He has presented programmes on BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and World Service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Associates The Talking Trade )〕 ==Biography and career== Chris de Souza is a Graduate in Music from Bristol University and a Graduate of the Directors’ Course of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.〔 He has worked in the media as a Theatre director, Radio Music producer and presenter. Head of Music at St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School in Bristol from 1966 to 1970, he went on to become a Producer with Sadlers Wells/English National Opera in 1971.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Artsplay )〕 From then on De Souza produced over 100 operas around the world,〔 among which the soundtrack for the fireworks display in the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Artistic Adviser )〕 As a record producer, he was nominated at the 2000 Grammy Awards for ''Powder Her Face''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chris de Souza )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=42nd Grammy Award Nominations )〕 Since 1966 he wrote and performed several compositions like ''8 Epithalamia for Organ'', ''Maharajahs'', ''The Ides of March'', ''Children of the Light''. In 1977 he devised the Liszt Festival of London editing and directing the first modern performance of Franz Liszt's opera ''Don Sanche''.〔 As a composer his music has been widely broadcast and performed, with recent commissions from the BBC, Southern Sinfonia, West Berkshire Maestros and the Lymington Choral Society.〔 In 1975 he joined the BBC Radio London becoming the BBC first Proms Producer in 1987. He presented Radio London's arts programme ''Look Stop Listen'', ''Performance On 3'' (with Humphrey Burton)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Presenters Radio 3 )〕 and ''Discovering Music'' on BBC Radio 3 and Sky Digital. As a presenter his own programme ''Tuning Up'', focusing on young musicians, won a Silver Medal at the New York Radio Festival in 1992. He has also presented on TV, BBC World Service, and broadcasts classical channels for many airlines.〔 De Souza is an author of classical music guides like ''Looking at music'', ''Listening to Music'', ''The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Music'', and wrote articles to The Listener, Music and Musicians, Musical Time and other magazines.〔 As narrator he appears in works like Peter and the Wolf and The Carnival of the Animals, of which he performed his own version in the presence of HRH Princess Alexandra.〔 He is a music teacher and works with many children's theatre groups.〔 From 1986 to 1999 he was a member of the British Youth Opera.〔 He is also the Artistic Director of Southern Sinfonia in Newbury,〔 a member of the Royal Society of Musicians and of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris de Souza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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