Jo works in Bath and nationally as a vocalist, Musical Director and workshop leader and is particularly keen to make singing accessible to all, regardless of skill or experience. Her busy workshops schedule is a testament to her flair for encouraging creativity in others as she travels the country working with adult singing groups, community choirs, schools and colleges, businesses and leisure-time learning institutions. She’s even taken to singing upon the high seas, working with world cruise passengers sailing round the Far East and the Caribbean! Closer to home, she founded and directs the Bath Community Gospel Choir and the Vivid gospel trio, teaches Singing for Actors at Bath Spa University and creates original music with Young Carers through Bath Philharmonia’s Education programme & Outreach. Jo enjoys her role as President of the Priston Music Festival and working as a workshop leader for The Ambassador Theatre Group in London’s West End.

Clara teaches songs from around the world in a range of styles, with a preference for pieces
that tell a story or carry meaning, particularly around themes of nature, community and unity.
Her teaching style is clear, fun and lighthearted. She is able to guide a large group of singers
of mixed ability in song in a way that is satisfying and meaningful for all. Clara's expressive
voice and excellent musicality helps make learning songs with her an enjoyable experience.
Clara studied music at Bath Spa University specialising in jazz voice and performs with a
number of groups in Bath and Wiltshire including Cantamus Chamber Choir, Rolling
Harmony, GBH Big Band, as a classical soloist, and with her own jazz trio. As a performer,
she is known for her clear and expressive tone, often likened to Ella Fitzgerald.
Clara leads Clarity Choirs in Bath and Trowbridge, and runs Sing with Clarity singing
workshops. "I believe that singing brings people together; it breaks down all barriers and
connects us with the thing we all have in common: a voice. I find great joy in singing with
people."

A varied career in education and performing has led trumpeter and conductor Mike to work with a plethora of incredible musicians including world leaders in jazz and baroque music. As such he has developed a conducting style formed from stylistic integrity with clarity and passion and fed by a broad and eclectic experience.

He is Music Director of Cantamus Chamber Choir performing varied standard and non-standard repertoire including several of Haydn’s masses, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle, Kodaly, Ola Gjielo’s Sunrise Mass, Will Todd’s Mass in Blue, the UK premiere of Nils Lindberg Christmas Cantata with GBH Big Band, also performing Bach’s St John and St Matthew Passions with English Touring Opera and the Old Street Band. He has tackled fabulous repertoire with the male choir Men with Horns including Schubert, Bruckner and notably Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody.

A truly collaborative musician always looking for new musical opportunities, he’s not all about one kind of music!
 

Beth Morgan has worked as a secondary music educator in both Australia and UK for 30 years, performing with her school choirs within the school community right through to international competitions. In 2016, she moved into the adult community choir sector, becoming the Musical Director for the Bristol Military Wives Choir.

Since then Beth has founded The Great Day Choir, a feel good daytime ladies choir network who have raised £1000s for charity, based across Bristol and Bath, and includes an accessible child friendly choir, Bella Mamas.

She leads guests workshops for organisations and community groups including Military Wives Choir, Women's Institute, Inspire Day and Choirlab.

During the pandemic, Beth founded The Creative Choir Leader, which has grown to become a global online community of 1.3K choir leaders and features an online professional support membership, The Inspire Club for those who want to change lives in their community through inspiring choir leading. This membership has seen Beth host online training sessions and collaborate with some of the world’s leading choral arrangers and conductors including Deke Sharon, John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Kirby Shaw, Alexander L’Estrange, Lin Marsh, Anu Omideyi, Joanna Tomlinson, Stuart Overington, Mary Bourne, Abi Moore, Matthew Finch, Emily Foulkes and Debbie Warren.

Beth has recently completed a course in Innovative Choirleading at the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark, under the tutelage of Jim Daus Hjernoe, Peder Karlsson and Jesper Holm. Here in the UK she has undertaken conducting courses with both CME and Sing for Pleasure.
 

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I have been bringing music to people for over 25 years in my capacity as musical director, choir leader, composer, arranger and teacher. As an enthusiastic, skilled and motivated musician I enjoy inspiring others to become fully involved and exceed their expectations. I work across all genres from Classical Choral tradition, Musical Theatre, and Pop, conducting a diverse range of choirs and orchestras, and also compose arrangements by commercial request.  Matt has run MyPubChoir for several years - and gets random people together in a pub, and teaches them pop and rock songs, creating a unique blend!

Highlights of my career to date include:

• Choirthon - getting 20 local choirs together to sing for 10 hours and raise over £5000 for charity

• Musical Director for 8 ensembles, recording Glorias & Requiems with hundreds of singers online during covid
• Organising 6 "Choirshows" on YouTube with over 50 different choirs from all over the UK
• Musical Director for a Choral Classics Weekend in Bath with 70 singers
• Producing an afternoon of singing in Bath Football Stadium
• Vivaldi’s Gloria in Venice and a live broadcast at Christmas on Radio 4 of a carol from Bath
• Founding "ChoirLab", an annual event where 250 singers try different styles of choir
• Musical Director for Bath Light Operatic Group (BLOG)
• 2022 Winner of the annual Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition
 

Bruce Ncube is a Zimbabwean musician with over 15 years experience of touring and traveling all over the UK teaching and performing in some of the world's biggest platforms such as WOMAD, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Edinburgh Mela, African Drum Village, World Music Workshop Festival.

Alice is a singer, conductor, composer and teacher based in South Somerset. She is Musical Director for the South Petherton Combined Arts Society Choir, Mid Wessex Singers and Yeovil Chamber Choir.
Recently conducted performances include Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Jenkins Sacred Songs and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Alice hosts ‘Come and Sing’ events throughout the year with various choirs and organisations, and is passionate about bringing ‘the ink’ to life!

Lorraine Mahoney
Estill Master Trainer (Estill Voice Training), CT ABRSM, ATCL
Lorraine has been a music educator for 30yrs, with former students going on to success at institutes including Arts Ed, Italia Conti, Mountview, Royal College of Music, Salisbury Playhouse and Chichester University.
She has worked with a wide demographic of professional singers, including those with West End and professional operatic backgrounds across a range of musical styles, including jazz, musical theatre, opera and pop.
Lorraine is Advanced Singing & Vocal Anatomy Lecturer at Wales Academy of Voice & Dramatic Arts (WAVDA) as part of University of Wales Trinity Saint David in Cardiff.
Lorraine professionally supports the Speech and Language Therapy sector in Wiltshire in an advisory capacity with a focus on vocal anatomy and physiology for local hospital Speech & Language Therapy departments.
Lorraine has extensive performing experience in Musical Theatre and has been in demand professionally as a recitalist and Soprano Soloist for Oratorio works across England. She has also performed professionally in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Gibraltar and the United Kingdom.
Lorraine is also experienced in choral work and is the Musical Director for Corsham & Colerne Military Wives Choir, together with 2 other ladies choirs. She also runs Little Voices - a Performing Arts school in Bath & NW Wiltshire.

Doug is a conductor and arranger based in Portishead, near Bristol. He is one of the founders of UK Show Choir and conducts the Clifton and Westbury-on-Trym groups. He loves a cappella and community music, and is rather fond of biscuits.

Isolde grew up singing gospel music from a young age, and has trained in classical, musical theatre, jazz, world and popular music at institues such as Sylvia Young Theatre School, Guildhall, Leeds College of Music, Goldsmiths University and ABCD. Isolde has spent the past 20 years writing and performing her own music, and directing choral projects with organisations such as Bath Theatre Royal, Bristol Drugs Project, and Bristol Folkhouse. As a music-writer with an interest in the creative, healing and transformative potential of sound, Isolde enjoys sharing immersive sonic experiences with groups that incoporate collaborative vocal improvisation (CVI), soundscape and soundbathing. With an additional background in yoga, movement and bodywork, Isolde takes a somatic approach to the voice, and infuses these aspects into her warm-ups, teaching and performances with the main choral project she runs in Bristol, Murmuration Choir.

Rebecca Atherton is a professional classical musician, singing teacher and conductor of the renowned Bristol Cabot choir.

Rebecca has conducted choirs since she was 19, in London, Cardiff and Bristol.
Rebecca spends most of her time as a professional vocal coach, working mainly with choral singers. She specialises in helping both professional and amateur singers who suffer with vocal anxiety, using a combination of Neuro Linguistic Programming, classical singing technique and Reiki to get results. Rebecca completed her Masters degree in Choral Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama whilst teaching A level Music and BTec Musical Theatre at St Brendan’s Sixth Form College. There she was lucky enough to take part in masterclasses with Eric Whitacre amongst others.

Rebecca now lives in Worcester and also conducts the Elgar School community choir and the Worcestershire Carer’s choir and teaches vocal studies at The Downs School, Malvern.

Neil read music at the University of Glasgow where he conducted the wind band and orchestra, set up the now-firmly established Music Club Choir and was President of the Music Society. While in Glasgow, and later in Edinburgh, he sang tenor and latterly countertenor at both cities' St Mary's Cathedrals.

Following university Neil began teaching singing and clarinet, and also sang countertenor with the choir of Hereford Cathedral under Geraint Bowen. He has appeared in the internationally acclaimed Three Choirs Festival, made several broadcasts on television and BBC Radio 3, recorded a number of CDs and toured extensively in the USA. He also took a choir to the finals of BBC Choir of the Year in 2008.

Since coming to Somerset Neil has sung with several choirs and directs Bath Cantata Group, Beckington Village Choir, Oakfield Choir, Frome and Midsomer Choral Society. He’s just been appointed Musical Director of Wincanton Choral Society and looks forward to starting with them in September.

He has recently performed solos in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Solomon, as the title character, Theodora (Didymus), Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Sorceress) Handel's Saul (David) and Messiah, Purcell's Ode to St Cecilia, Schütz's Christmas Story, Mozart's Requiem and Vivaldi's Gloria.

As a clarinettist, Neil regularly plays recitals, and often plays with the professional Mendip Ensemble.