Graham Caldbeck, director of Nonsuch Singers since 1996, is one of Britain’s leading conductors of amateur choirs, known for his wide-ranging musical skills, innovative programming and stylish performances.  

He studied music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar under Richard Marlow, and has sung with the Cathedral Choirs of Guildford and Winchester. He holds both the Fellowship and Choir Training diplomas of the Royal College of Organists, is a former Assistant Organist at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and is currently Director of Music at St Mary The Boltons, SW10. For fifteen years, Graham held senior positions at the Royal College of Music and he now pursues a freelance career as conductor, organist, vocal coach and teacher. 

Between 1984 and 1999, Graham was conductor of Southern Voices, the Winchester-based chamber choir that he co-founded and rapidly established as one of the leading choirs in the area, regularly giving performances in Winchester Cathedral, Turner Sims Concert Hall at Southampton University, and Romsey Abbey. In 1993 he was chorus master for a recording of works by Delius with Southern Voices, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and soloists Bryn Terfel and Amanda Roocroft, conducted by the late Richard Hickox. This recording won the “Grammy” choral award that year. 

Since 1990 he has conducted the Somerset Chamber Choir in performances in Wells Cathedral and King's College Chapel, Taunton, working with many of the UK's finest vocal soloists and period and modern instrument ensembles. Last July he conducted a sell-out performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor in Wells Cathedral with Canzona and soloists Dame Emma Kirkby, Tim Mead, Andrew Tortise and Samuel Evans.

From 2005 Graham has also directed the Mayfield Festival Choir in E. Sussex, where he recently conducted a programme of works by Janácek, Tarik O'Regan and Bernstein alongside John Rutter’s Mass of the Children in which the choir, London Primavera and some thirty local schoolchildren took part. In the 2010 Mayfield Festival, he shared the rostrum with Sir David Willcocks in a programme of choral works by Fauré and Gounod.

Apart from concerts with Nonsuch Singers (detailed elsewhere), future projects a concert in Taunton entitled Out of the East with the Somerset Chamber Choir and Anita D’Attellis (piano), featuring choral and piano music from Russia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia & Finland; a performance of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in the 2012 Mayfield Festival in May; a guest appearance conducting Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society & Orchestra in Verdi’s Requiem, and a concert of music by J.S. & C.P.E. Bach and Mozart in Wells Cathedral with Somerset Chamber Choir and Southern Sinfonia in July.