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Our musicians
Alan Bullard
Alan Bullard was for many years Head of Composition at Colchester Institute, and now works as a composer and ABRSM examiner. In 2008 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Essex, and in 2010 two of his publications received awards from the Music Industries Association. Many of his choral publications are published by Oxford University Press and others by Novello, Colne Edition, and GIA. The Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, directed by Sarah MacDonald, has recorded two discs of his music including the cantatas O Come Emmanuel and Wondrous Cross for the Regent label.
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Bob Chilcott
Bob Chilcott is a world-renowned composer and conductor, with a catalogue of 300 choral titles, published by Oxford University Press. He has conducted choirs in more than 30 countries, and works annually with choir festivals as adjudicator and conductor, and with many thousands of amateur singers in an ongoing series of singing days. He is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers, Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers, and a former member of The King’s Singers. His music has been released by Signum, Hyperion, and Naxos.
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Cecilia McDowall
Cecilia McDowall is an award-winning composer, shortlisted eight times for the British Composer Awards, and winner of the choral award in 2014 for her haunting work, Night Flight. Her music is commissioned and performed by leading choirs including the BBC Singers, The Sixteen, and Oxford and Cambridge choirs, ensembles, and at festivals worldwide. Forthcoming recordings include a CD of her choral music by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge on Hyperion, Standing as I do by NFM Wroclaw on Signum, and the Da Vinci Requiem by Wimbledon Choral Society.
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David Lawrence
David Lawrence holds the Guinness World Record for conducting the UK’s largest choir. He has been nominated for a Gramophone Award, and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. His work has taken him to Singapore, Colombia, Canada, USA, India, UAE, throughout Europe, and to Australia where he is a popular guest conductor and trainer of choral conductors. He is the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra’s Community Choir and Senior Youth Choir, and as Principal Conductor of Young Voices he conducts an annual series for over 100,000 young singers.
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Edward-Rhys Harry
Edward-Rhys Harry is a Welsh composer and conductor and advocates professional training and development, leading workshops in singing and conducting, and running development programmes for choral conductors through The Harry Ensemble and Coro Optimum. In 2022 he published The Listening Conductor, a reference support including unique vocal exercises and tips for the conductor and their choir.
He is Artistic Director of Chamber Choir Wales, Musical Director of London Welsh Chorale, Harlow Chorus, and London Welsh Male Voice Choir, and Honorary Conductor of Sandgrenska Manskören. He directs the 1000-voice Male Choirs Festival, and has conducted in Australia, Argentina, and the USA. He is Conductor-in-Residence of the British Sinfonietta Orchestra, and has recently collaborated with Welsh National Opera and the National Theatre.
Francis Pott
Francis Pott has an extensive catalogue of works which have been performed and broadcast in more than 40 countries, widely published in the UK (including by Oxford University Press and Edition Peters), and released worldwide on 40 CDs. He is the winner of four national and two international composition awards, and in 2014 was shortlisted for the British Composer Awards. In 2007 he was appointed Chair in Composition at the University of West London in addition to his role as Director of London College of Music.
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Joanna Marsh
Joanna Marsh’s life in the Middle East has led to many unique musical opportunities, including a commission for the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the BBC Proms in Dubai, a fanfare for the visit of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Abu Dhabi, and an orchestral work celebrating the building of the Burj Khalifa. Her 2022 BBC Radio 3 commission for the BBC Singers, SEEN for choir and electronics, was performed during the 2023 Proms season, and in 2022 she won the choral award at The Ivors Classical Awards with All Shall Be Well, composed in 2021 for ORA Singers. In 2025 her second album, A Plastic Theatre, is due for release on Signum Records.
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