Staff

Canzonetta has broadcast frequently on BBC Radio 3, and has made several television appearances for both BBC and ITV. The group’s recordings include the music of Andrew Carter – a 60th birthday tribute, available on the Guild label, and, more recently, Carey Blyton’s complete chamber choir music for Upbeat, and a double CD of Gordon Lawson’s church music for Chameleon Arts. In addition to appearances at the Cheltenham and Harrogate International Festivals – including a Russian choral programme at his third Harrogate appearance – he has acted as Chorus Director to both Pavarotti and Carreras.

Between 2001-2007, he directed the internationally renowned Manchester Boys’ Choir with whom he appeared on many major platforms including the Bridgewater Hall, and Leeds and Huddersfield Town Halls. The Boys’ major appearances during that period included the Berlioz Te Deum and Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus with Huddersfield Choral Society, a Radio 3 broadcast performance of Britten’s War Requiem from Leeds Town Hall (BBC Philharmonic Orchestra) and his Spring Symphony at the Chester International Festival. There were also appearances with Evelyn Glennie and Aled Jones, and tours to the Czech Republic (2004), northern Germany (2005), Ontario and Michigan (2006) and, in May 2007, a guest appearance at the Cornwall International Male Choir Festival in Truro Cathedral.

He is in demand as a guest conductor and choral trainer, working again this year for most of the major British choral organisations at weekend workshops etc. He has directed seven choral festivals for the BBC, and has adjudicated at many choral competitions in the UK, Ireland, and also in Scandinavia and South Africa. He has sat on the panel of judges at the Prague and Verona International Choir Festivals, the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the National Festival of Music for Youth, the National Male Voice Choir Competition, the Malta International Choral Festival and the Jersey International Choir Competition.

He has served on a number of national bodies, including the BBC Central Music Advisory Committee, and the Association of British Choral Directors, for whose Millennium Convention he was Artistic Director. In 2007 he directed the Association’s International Gala Concert in Chester Cathedral.

She also created the role of Mrs Trout in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Peter Ash) – a world premiere – and, in 2004, was soprano soloist in the first Manchester performance of Rutter’s Mass of the Children, both also in the Bridgewater Hall.

Fiona now has a busy schedule, not only as a performer but as a choral/vocal agent and voice tutor. She is the administrator of the award-winning chamber choir Canzonetta as well as managing and tutoring the Canzonetta Children’s Choir. She is also the vocal studies coach at Withington Girls’ School, Manchester – one of the UK’s leading independent schools.

She is equally at home as a recitalist and has performed as soloist with the late in a Manchester Evening News Arena performance. In addition she has appeared regularly with a number of leading brass bands and concert choirs throughout the North of England and in Wales.

From 1998-2004 he was Director of Music at Kimbolton School in Cambridgeshire, also holding the post of Musical Director of the Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. He has also appeared as guest conductor for Harrogate Choral Society and the Manchester Camerata. Marcus enjoys engagements as a baritone soloist in addition to his work as a conductor and adjudicator with a repertoire covering many of the major choral works. Recent engagements have included Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has been a tutor in conducting at the Association of British Choral Directors Annual Conference and has been a tutor on both the Harrogate Choral Week and Cranleigh Choral Week since the beginning.

Marcus is currently Director of Music at Cranleigh School and Musical Director of Cranleigh Choral Society. Recent conducting projects in this capacity have included Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3 and the Bruch: Violin Concerto, both with Cranleigh pupils as soloists, Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2, Handel: Messiah, Dvorak: Te Deum and Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem. He has also recently undertaken the musical direction of a major production of Les Misérables.

As a choral singer, Amy has performed with Rodolphus, Choros Amici (BBC Choir of the Year 2000), Canzonetta and The Texas Tech University Choir. She has appeared on BBC1 and BBC Radio 3, and has performed at choral conferences in England and America. Amy also tutors on the internationally acclaimed ABCD Choral Conducting courses. Her choral compositions have been performed by several British and American choirs, most notably by Joyful Company of Singers, Choros Amici and The Texas Tech University Singers.

Amy has worked as a choral animateur for Youth Music, youngchoirs.net, Glyndebourne Education and Sing for Pleasure and is a trainer for the Key Stage 2 CPD course run by Trinity College and The Open University. She has directed numerous choirs including Huddersfield People’s Choir, Bradford University Singers, Lubbock Chorale, Good Company (Walsall), the Berkshire Boys’ Choir and Stone Choral Society. Amy is the Musical Director for Holmbury St Mary Choral Society and took up Directorship of Epworth Choir (Woking) at the start of 2010. The remainder of her time is spent leading vocal workshops, composing and directing the Training, Treble and Mixed Choirs at the Royal College of Music Junior Department.

In 2002 James took up an appointment at the BBC, leading a project to re-catalogue the BBC’s vast collection of choral sheet music as the archive’s chief choral advisor. He has since worked with the BBC Singers as an education practitioner for their GoSing project.

James is in demand throughout the UK as a choral conductor and choir trainer. As part of his busy life he conducts the Aylesbury Festival Choir, Guardian’s Angels (the choir of the Guardian newspaper), Central Harmony Community Choir and he is an Assistant Conductor for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. James is also a Choir Trainer for the Royal College of Music Junior Department, Cranleigh Choral Week and the Canford Summer School of Music.

Lucy is Assistant Director of Music at the University of Warwick, and a visiting tutor in Choral Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Former posts include Musical Director of the Training Choirs of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Lucy’s work as a vocal animateur takes her all over the UK, regularly leading projects with Opera North, Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and Sing Up. She is also active in training conductors and singing leaders.

Lucy is an enthusiastic choral singer. She has sung with the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, and now enjoys singing with Choros Amici (BBC Choir of the Year 2000).

He has held répétiteur/accompanist positions with Manchester Chorale, Canzonetta, Oxford Pro Musica Singers, Manchester University Chorus, John Lewis Partnership Music Society, Opera Unlimited (as Musical Director) and many other groups. He is also in demand for individual engagements and has been fortunate to work with a number of prominent soloists and conductors, including Lesley Garrett.

Since leaving teaching to concentrate on a freelance career, in addition to his choral accompaniment work, he is increasingly in demand as a choral conductor. He is Assistant Chorus Master of Voices in Partnership (part of the John Lewis Partnership Music Society), a regular guest conductor of the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church Oxford, the Assistant Musical Director of Oxford Pro Musica Singers and the Musical Director of the recently-formed Oxon Singers. He has also recently completed a period as Musical Director of the Hardynge Choir during their interregnum. Mark is a regular member of the staff at Cranleigh Choral Week; he was a member of staff on the inaugural Choral Week in Harrogate in 1994.

Mark is also a highly experienced choral singer having sung with several award-winning choirs including Canzonetta, Choros Amici, Chantage and many others.

She gained her performer’s diploma and her ARCO diploma in London.

Kathleen works with several choirs in the North West.