Voce:
We're a bunch of young, varied, ambitious individuals.
This page has the people that make Voce tick, but really
everyone in the choir helps run things...
See the pictures they're
desperate to find replacements for by clicking here:
Pictures of our current members...
For a full list of who does what for the
choir day-to-day, please click here
Suzi is the Founder & Principal of The Voices Foundation,
a music education charity that works with deprived inner city and rural primary
schools throughout England and Wales with an innovative singing-based scheme.
She has founded and directed several high-calibre choirs, adjudicated numerous
international choir competitions, including the forthcoming "Last Choir
Standing", and, through Artsworks, runs corporate workshops for companies
such as BP, Allen & Overy and Freshfields.
She's also a Fellow of the
Royal Society and a Churchill Fellow.
Suzi married Lord Eatwell in Summer 2006, and was awarded the O.B.E. in 2007,
for services to music education.
There isn't room to talk about all her credentials here, but for a full
biography, click here
Ralph Allwood:
president
and a guest
conductor
Ralph Allwood studied music at Durham and Cambridge Universities and has been
Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College since 1985. He founded and
directs the four annual Eton Choral Courses. He also directs the Rodolfus Choir
and the Windsor and Eton Choral Society. He is a judge for Sainsbury's Choir of
the Year and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, and is a Choral Advisor
for Novello. He was recently made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal School of
Church Music.
Or as the Times put it, "Ralph Allwood, the finest
trainer of young choirs in the country today"
Firmly established as one of the world's leading figures
in choral music, Mike Brewer OBE is in demand world-wide for vocal workshops.
Mike Brewer is Musical Director of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and
Conductor of the award winning chamber choir, Laudibus. He now spends part of
each year writing music. Hamba Lulu, his volume of African songs, is already a
best seller, and other publications include Kick Start your Choir, Improve Your
Sightsinging and Mike Brewer's Warm-Ups....
Ken
Burton: guest
conductor
Ken Burton is the Director of Croydon SDA Gospel Choir,
and renowned as the leading gospel choir leader in the UK. He's written a
number of successful books and made countless recordings, and he was a leading
figure in the Queen's golden jubilee celebrations.
For a full biography of Ken Burton,
click here...
Tim Sutton: guest conductor
Tim is one of the most successful composers of his
generation, as well as being a much-admired conductor and musician.
Recently praised for his work with "the Little Prince" (BBC2), he has also
written a number of works specially for Voce, and has conducted us in three
concert.
We can't do him justice here, but for a full biography,
click here...
Harry runs a start-up drinks company called
Firefly.
He honed his singing at St. George's Chapel Windsor, Eton and Oxford, plays the
piano, and enjoys skiing, climbing, film, opera, seeing the world... His
job was to find the initial brave singers to join Voce in Summer 2003, and he
now looks after the website and public face of Voce.
