 In 1983, he conducted The World Youth Choir and was later a guest judge on the BBC programme "Last Choir Standing".He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1995.In February 2013, Brewer and his former wife, Hilary Kay Brewer, were both found guilty of indecently assaulting a pupil at Chetham's School of Music between 1978 (when she was 14) and 1982.