Recording Engineer & Choir Leader
A few days ago I went to a meeting. Technically it could have been described as a choir committee meeting. However, fear not – I haven’t been abducted by aliens. As you would expect the meeting involved me and two lovely ladies having coffee together. I did try to order cake but that seemed to be beyond the…
In the past week I have performed on stage alongside Wynne Evans, been introduced by Moira Stuart and interviewed by Alex Lester on the radio. The only thing I failed to do was to get a choir on Gareth Malone’s new show ‘Naked Choir’. Although to be fair the BlueBelles did get through to the final…
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to take a choir to BBC Wiltshire to promote the Swindon Festival of Choirs. You can listen to the interview here: The Swindon Festival of Choirs took place at the Old Town Bowl on Sunday 12 July 2015 and raised over £1000 for the Open Door…
Every week, despite not being religiously minded, I find myself attending church. Of course, as I’m sure most of you know, this is because I am currently organist at St Thomas a Becket Church in Bath rather than because of any deep desire to pray to a higher power. St Thomas’ is a delightful little…
The composer Alexander Borodin once said, “Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations“. For him, this was probably true. Whilst he is mostly remembered as a composer, Borodin also had a long career as a Chemist and was particularly noted for his work on ‘aldehydes’ (I’m not even going to attempt to define…
A few weeks ago I decided to rebrand one of my choirs, specifically my Ladies Barbershop Choir. They were previously known as The Bellettes, but for many reasons the name wasn’t quite right. I also wanted to take this choir in a new direction and so it was decided that we should find a new…