The intent is to bring together boys and young men who have one thing in common, “a love of singing.”

Since its inception the Boychoir Festival has had many distinguished guest directors to lead the the boys. Some past conductors include:

2000 – Vincent Metallo 2001 – Lynnel Joy Jenkins 2002 – Judith Willoughby 2003 – Dr. Andre J. Thomas 2004 – Francisco J. Nuñez 2005 – Dr. James Litton 2006 – Dr. Judy Bowers 2007 – Dr. Z. Randall Stroope 2008 – Bob Chilcott 2009 – Dr. Rollo Dilworth 2010 – Stephen Hatfield 2011 – Simon Carrington 2012 – Dr. Paul Rardin 2013 – Dr. Craig Denison 2014 – Richard Webster 2015 – Henry Leck 2016 – David R. White 2017 – Michael McCarthy – 2018 Dr. Andrea Ramsey – 2019 Dr. Sandra Snow – 2022 Stephen Darlington – 2023 Dr. Anton Armstrong – 2024 Dr. Lynne Gackle – 2025 Gabriel Crouch

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Gabriel Crouch, guest director of the  2025 Baltimore Boychoir Festival

Gabriel Crouch is Director of Choral Activities and Professor of the Practice in Music at Princeton University. He began his musical career as an eight-year-old in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where his solo credits included a Royal Wedding, and performances which placed him on the solo stage with Jessye Norman and Sir Laurence Olivier. After completing a choral scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was offered a place in the renowned a cappella group The King’s Singers in 1996. In the next eight years he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world. Since moving to the USA in 2005 he has built an international profile as a conductor and director, with recent engagements in Indonesia, Hawaii and Australia as well as Europe and the continental United States. In 2008 he was appointed musical director of the British early music ensemble ‘Gallicantus’, with whom he has released six recordings under the Signum label to rapturous reviews, garnering multiple ‘Editor’s Choice’ awards in Gramophone Magazine, Choir and Organ Magazine and the Early Music Review, and, for the 2012 release ‘The Word Unspoken’, a place on BBC Radio’s CD Review list of the top nine classical releases of the year. His recording of Lagrime di San Pietro by Orlando di Lasso was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2014, and his follow-up recording – Sibylla (featuring music by Orlandus Lassus and Dmitri Tymoczko) was named ’star recording’ by Choir and Organ magazine in the summer of 2018. His most recent release is Mass for the Endangered, a new composition by Sarah Kirkland Snider released on the Nonesuch/New Amsterdam labels, which has garnered high acclaim from the New York Times, Boston Globe, NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ and elsewhere.