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Whos Who
The CCW staff are the key people behind the success
of Cranleigh Choral Week. They make sure that not only is everything
organised on the musical front but also that all the administrative
and logistical tasks are handled.
Jeffrey Wynn Davies - Artistic
Director
Fiona Clucas - Administrator
Marcus Pashley - Choral Tutor
Amy Bebbington - Choral Tutor
James Davey - Choral Tutor
Lucy Griffiths - Choral Tutor
Mark Jordan - Répétiteur
Kathleen Hesford - Répétiteur
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Jeffrey Wynn Davies - Artistic
Director |
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Jeffrey Wynn Davies continues to enhance his already
established reputation as one of this country’s busiest and
most versatile choral conductors and trainers.
He directs both the award winning vocal group/chamber choir Canzonetta
– former BBC Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year - and Canzonetta Children’s Choirs. The former appears
regularly at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. Recent performances
there include John Rutter Mass of the Children (Manchester
premiere), Verdi Four Sacred Pieces, the Durufle Requiem
and the opera Mary Seacole for Black Arts Alliance, Messiah and the
world premiere of Tunde Jegede’s The Calling (with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra).
He also directed the adult and children’s choruses in the world
premiere of Peter Ash’s opera Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory.
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Jeffrey Wynn Davies
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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.
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Fiona Clucas - Administrator |
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Fiona Clucas
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All the planning and administration
of Cranleigh Choral Week is managed by Fiona Clucas. In recent years, however, she has also established
a considerable reputation, particularly in the North of England,
as a versatile soprano soloist.
In 2005 she sang Elijah opposite Sir
Willard White in York Minster. Other work includes Rossini
Petite Messe Solennelle, Carmina Burana, Messiah,
Poulenc and Vivaldi Glorias, Haydn Theresa Mass
and Paukenmesse, Bach Christmas Oratorio, Mozart
Requiem, and the Bach and Rutter Magnificat settings.
There were also performances of Britten Rejoice in the Lamb
and Hymn to St. Cecilia in Manchester’s Bridgewater
Hall, Mozart Requiem and Jonathan Willcocks’ Lux Perpetua in
Guildford Cathedral, and Brahms’ Requiem / Vaughan Williams’ Benedicite
in Ripon Cathedral.
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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.
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Marcus Pashley - Choral Tutor |
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Marcus Pashley read Music at Manchester University
developing a passion for working with choirs. In Manchester he directed
and considerably developed the work of the University Chamber Choir,
founded the New Manchester Bach Ensemble and won the universitys
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Marcus Pashley
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He has held the posts of Music Director of the
Bradford Choristers and subsequently Chorus Director of Central
Festival Opera preparing performances of Puccini: La Boheme
and Bizet: Carmen for Opera Holland Park. As a founder
member of the 1993 BBC Choir of the Year Canzonetta,
he has performed throughout the UK and abroad.
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. |
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Amy Bebbington - Choral Tutor |
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Amy has a First Class Honours Degree
and a Masters Degree in Piano Performance. She also became a Doctor
of Musical
Arts, specialising in Choral Conducting, in 2005, having studied
with Dr. John Dickson at Texas
Tech University. As a pianist, Amy has performed Mozart's
Piano Concerto in A Major (K488) with The Wrexham Symphony Orchestra
and Shostakovitch's Second Piano Concerto with The University of
Huddersfield Symphony Orchestra. She was the repetiteur for Opera
Femina and Lakeland
Opera, and is also on the instrumental teaching faculty (piano)
at Wellington
College.
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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. |
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James Davey - Choral
Tutor |
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James Davey is one of this country’s most distinguished and respected young choral conductors. He began his musical career as a chorister, later studying performance at the Birmingham Conservatoire where, inspired by his experiences with the National Youth Choir and the critically acclaimed Laudibus, he formed the Sedici Chamber Choir and took his conducting debut.
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In 1999 James took up residency at St Paul’s Cathedral School as Music Assistant, from where he formed the award-winning choir Chantage – BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2006. Since then he has studied conducting under many eminent choral figures, attending the Voices International Conducting Symposium lead by Michael Brewer and Ralph Allwood, taking the Association of British Choral Directors Conducting Course headed by Peter Broadbent and Therees Hibbard, and studying for an MA in Choral Education at Roehampton University.
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.
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Lucy Griffiths - Choral
Tutor |
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Lucy Griffiths is much in demand as a conductor and as a vocal animateur. She studied for her undergraduate degree in Music at the University of Bristol and McGill University in Montreal. She went on to work as a Lecturer in Music at Portsmouth University before being awarded the prestigious Sinfonia ViVA conducting scholarship. This allowed her to complete her Masters in Conducting at Birmingham Conservatoire, where she was twice awarded the Michael Beech Conducting Prize. Lucy has studied with Martyn Brabbins, Sian Edwards and Bob Chilcott, amongst other eminent figures.
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. |
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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). |
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Répétiteurs
In addition to the tutors, Cranleigh Choral Week
is very fortunate to enjoy the services of first class rehearsal
accompanists. In 2010, these are: |
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Mark Jordan - Répétiteur |
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Mark studied music at Manchester
University where he firmly established himself as a sought after
accompanist for recitals, examinations and concerts. He accompanied
the University
Chorus for an unprecedented three-year period. It was at this time
that he formed his long connection with Jeffrey Wynn-Davies.
During his years as an accompanist he has had
the opportunity to work with many famous conductors, notably Benjamin
Zander (Boston SO) for the Henley Festival. As a freelance organist,
he has played in a large number of major cathedrals and venues
around the country including York Minster, Carlisle Cathedral,
St David's Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral, New College Oxford, Magdalen
College Oxford, as well as the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal
Albert Hall. |
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For seven years he was Accompanist
in Residence at Morland Choristers'
Camp; a week-long course for
children and young adults who sing in church and chapel choirs
throughout the UK. He is currently the répétiteur and piano tutor
for the John
Lewis Partnership Music Society, and appeared as guest
soloist
this year in Constant Lambert's Rio Grande.
Mark is the Musical Director of Opera
Unlimited – a small
Opera Company based in South London giving opportunities to new
and up-coming singers. He is also the Assistant Musical Director
and accompanist for Oxford Pro
Musica Singers. This has led to
playing for many prestigious concerts including the world première
performance of Paul Patterson's Millennium Mass [organ version].
Mark is also a very experienced choral singer having sung with
Oxford Pro Musica Singers, Choros
Amici, Canzonetta, Manchester
Chorale, the Cavendish Singers and many other choirs throughout
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Kathleen Hesford - Répétiteur |
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Kathleen Hesford
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Kathleen graduated from the RNCM specialising in accompaniment, studying with John Wilson and David Lloyd.
She gained her performer’s diploma and her ARCO diploma in London. Kathleen works with several choirs in the North West. |
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She accompanied the Manchester
Boys’ Choir, a post she held for 20 years. She travelled extensively with them, performing in Canada, Russia, Australia, the USA as well as many European cities.
Kathleen accompanies the Canzonetta Children’s Choirs in Manchester, working with Jeffrey Wynn Davies and Fiona Clucas. She also accompanies the Kinder Children’s Choir of the High Peak. |
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