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Gareth has helped galvanise the British choral scene through his award winning BBC series, concert tours and recordings.
Gareth is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Janice Chapman and Jonathan Papp. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia and Freedom of the City of London in 2010. In 2012 he was made OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours for services to music.
He first appeared on TV in the three-part BAFTA award-winning series The Choir for BBC, tackling the task of teaching choral singing to people who have never had the chance, or experience to sing before. This aired in 2006, along with three further series; The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing in 2008, The Choir: Unsung Town, which involved the creation of a choir in South Oxhey, Hertfordshire, in 2009, and The Choir: Military Wives in 2011. The series began to air on BBC America in the summer of 2010. Since 2012, he has made two series of Sing While You Work for BBC2, infiltrating the workplace to get large UK companies singing.
Gareth has had three number one records in the UK with The Military Wives.