Patron: Bazil Meade MBE
James Rose (PKA Brave James) is a prolific arranger, performer, producer, songwriter & educator, based in London. Over the years, James has become a veteran performer of a cappella & vocal harmony, touring worldwide with acclaimed internet sensation group, ‘Accent’. James has an extensive portfolio of arrangements and originals for prominent groups, choirs and bands, including…
Paul John McKenna is an experienced Speech & Language Therapist specialising in clinical voice disorders and the performing voice. He works in the NHS at Wythenshawe Hospital, South Manchester, as Clinical Lead for Voice Services where he runs the Professional Voice Users Clinic, endoscopically assessing professional voice users with vocal injuries and impairments. As well…
Sharon has a practice in Kent and London where she specialises in training CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) singers, rehabilitating injured voices and presenting vocal health workshops and masterclasses.Currently, Sharon is studying an MA in Voice Pedagogy where her main research is in vocal health and rehabilitation. She has been awarded bursaries to attend voice conferences…
Nicholas Cleobury has conducted all the major UK orchestras, opera companies and choirs. He has appeared at many leading Festivals, including the Proms, worked extensively for the BBC and Classicfm and has a wide recording catalogue. He has conducted across Europe, notably for many years at Zurich Opera, across Scandinavia and in Australia, Hong Kong,…
Audrey is a musician whose dominating gift is her ability to bring the absolute best out of any singer she shares her talents with. Her work covers being a choir director, event producer, jazz-gospel performer and she is known throughout the UK especially for her work with gospel choir productions and as a director of…
Rebecca Thomas started directing choirs at 16, encouraged by UK Choir leaders Karen Gibson and Wayne Ellington. She studied Vocals at BIMM in Brighton and when she finished she Joined the London Community Gospel Choir in 200. In 2007 she directed her first choir performance and has been conducting and running workshops over Europe and…
Jamie is a professional singer, vocal coach, and conductor, trained at the Royal Academy of Music. Believing that anyone can make brilliant music, his energetic and inclusive approach to choral leadership aims to get the best out of every individual. A versatile workshop leader, Jamie delivers a wide range of workshops from opera to beatboxing…
Craig is a contemporary vocal coach, choral leader and arranger. He is a Principal Lecturer on the Popular Music Degree at Leeds Conservatoire, where he founded their Contemporary Pop Choir in 2014. In 2017, he was the Musical Director behind Leeds Contemporary Singers, a nine-piece vocal harmony group that rose to fame as the winners…
David Lawrence is one of the UK’s most versatile conductors, working with orchestras, symphony choruses and national youth choirs. He was recently nominated for a Gramophone Award for his conducting, and holds the Guinness World Record for conducting the UK’s largest choir – 6,846 singers! David’s work has taken him to Singapore, Colombia, Canada, the…
Lucy Griffiths is one of the most respected conductor-animateurs of her generation. Having studied and won several prestigious prizes in the UK and Canada, her leadership experience ranges across vocal and instrumental music-making with professional, amateur, youth and adult ensembles at the very highest level of each. It has seen her appear on TV and…