Harry Bradford is a prize-winning conductor and choral director based in London. He recently graduated, with distinction, from the Royal Academy of Music where he studied for an MMus Degree in Choral Conducting under Patrick Russill. Upon graduating, he was awarded the Academy Alumni Scholarship for a ’singularly distinguished studentship’, the Sir Thomas Armstrong and Paton Prizes, the LRAM teaching diploma and the prestigious DipRAM award for an outstanding final recital. Bradford has participated in masterclasses with Paul Brough, Simon Halsey, David Hill, Neil Ferris, Mats Nilsson and Roland Börger and was the Genesis Sixteen Conducting Scholar (2018-19) receiving mentoring from Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan of ’The Sixteen’. His conducting journey began with the national choral charity Sing for Pleasure under the tutelage of Manvinder Rattan and Sarah Tenant-Flowers.

Bradford is the Co-founder and Conductor of the young professional vocal ensemble ‘Recordare’ founded in 2018, at the age of 22. During the same year Bradford was the 3rd prize winner at the ‘DIMA international competition’ and was the youngest finalist at the ‘International Competition for Young Conductors’ in Paris, 2019. He was the runner-up in the prestigious Eric Ericson award in Stockholm, Sweden 2021 where he conducted the Swedish Radio Choir in rehearsal and performance. He has since appeared as Chorus Master with the MDR Rundfunkchor at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and will return to conduct the Swedish Radio Choir in September 2023.

Bradford has conducted at a number of major venues such as St John’s Smith Square, Bridgewater Hall and King’s College, Cambridge and has worked with choirs such as Le Choeur de L’Orchestre de Paris, the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir, Corul Juiblate Cluj, Les Chants du CMBV as well as workshopping with the BBC Singers. He currently holds permanent positions with the Thames Philharmonic Choir, English Baroque Choir and the North Herts Guild of Singers. Harry is also the conductor of the Willington School Chamber Choir and a Teacher/Singer for the Pimlico Musical Foundation.

Previously, Bradford read music at the Downing College, Cambridge and was a member of the choir of King’s College under the direction of the late Sir Stephen Cleobury. During his time in the choir,  Bradford featured as a soloist on live BBC Radio and television broadcasts and was also Musical Director and arranger for the scholars’ close harmony group, ‘The King’s Men’. Harry remains active as a singer and has worked with Tenebrae, Mogens Dahl Kammerkor, the Hanover Band Chorus, London Choral Sinfonia, Siglo de Oro and Britten Sinfonia Voices as well as being a regular deputy in a number of London’s professional church choirs.