The Tribune

CLEOPHAS Adderley is an attorney at law, and another of the 40 Fabulous Fathers whom The Tribune is highlighting who was honoured by Mount Tabor Full Gospel Church for the 40th Anniversary of Independence.

He is founder and director of The Bahamas National Youth Choir, director of the senior choir of the parish church of The Most Holy Trinity, founder and director of The National Choir of The Bahamas, former Director of Culture and the Executive Director of National Musical Heritage and Research. He is the son of the late Cleophas Adderley, former Member of Parliament and the late Mrs Helen Bailey-Adderley, daughter of the late RM Bailey, after whom the high school is named.

Mr Adderley is the composer of the first Bahamian grand opera, ‘Our Boys,’ which is also the first opera to have been written and performed in the English-speaking Caribbean.

He is also the composer of the first Bahamian concert mass, ‘Misa Caribe.’ He is the composer of music and rhythms for the play ‘You Can Lead A Horse To Water,’ by the late Winston Saunders, and he has written and arranged music for piano, pipe organ, choir and solo voice. Some of his choral compositions have been published by Hal Leonard Corporation, the largest publisher of choral music in the United States.

He is a founding Board Member of the National Art Gallery, a founding Board Member of the Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Board, a former member of The National Cultural Heritage Commission, a trustee of the Charitable Foundation of the Arts and a member of the Harry C Moore Memorial Scholarship in The Arts Committee.

Mr Adderley is married to Francoise Brooks-Adderley and is the father of two children. He is a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Club of West Nassau.