About

Kerensa Briggs is an award-winning composer specialising in choral music. Her work has been described by The New York Times as “poignant, ambivalent [and] quietly devastating.” Her music is performed regularly on international stages, with venues including St Paul’s Cathedral, Wigmore Hall, and the Sistine Chapel. Briggs’s works have been recorded and broadcast by leading ensembles such as VOCES8 and The Sixteen.

Her portrait album Requiem (2023), released on Delphian Records, alongside several other recordings of her music, placed in the classical charts and was praised by BBC Music Magazine as “alluring and heartfelt.” She served as Composer in Residence with the St Louis Chamber Chorus from 2023 to 2025, holds a residency with the Whiddon Autumn Festival in 2026 and is composer for The Sixteen's Choral Pilgrimage 2026. Her passion for choral music stems from her own choral background, having sung with ensembles including Gloucester Cathedral Youth Choir and the Choir of King’s College London, where she held a Choral Scholarship and completed an MMus in Composition.