Carter

Andrew Carter was born in 1939 into a Leicestershire family of tower and handbell ringers. Following a music degree at the University of Leeds, he joined York Minster choir as a bass songman under the direction of Francis Jackson. For a decade, he was also Director of Music at the Bar Convent Grammar School, where he achieved his first successes as a choir trainer.

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'The well-known words of St Francis of Assisi are given the most vivid and stunningly beautiful setting, filled with richness and glowing harmonic colour: some of the modulations are quite breathtaking, and yet the vocal writing is simplicity itself. . . this imaginative anthem should be in every self-respecting choir's repertoire.' Church Music Quarterly on The Prayer of Peace