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Music is a powerful emotional trigger and can be used effectively in image building, as well as providing direct contact through the audience. Promoting your preferred charity  in partnership with the choir is an ideal way to develop a greater understanding of peoples and culture through music. Add to your creative  leisure time and really discover the joy of singing.

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Our dynamic duo

Michael Wyn Jones - Musical Director and Conductor

MICHAEL WYN JONES

Michael Jones was invited to conduct The London Welsh Rugby Club Choir on their inaugural tour following the Lions fixtures around New Zealand in 2005.  Since then, he and the choir have never looked back, and go from strength to strength challenging our preconceptions of what a Welsh male voice choir should be and do.
Michael comes from the type of strong musical background you expect in Wales.  As a schoolboy, he gained his ALCM in piano and was also a talented violinist, taking part in national and local youth orchestras.  Following a natural progression, Michael has sung in a number of well-respected choirs, including the BBC Symphony Chorus and the Exmoor Singers (winners of the Sainsburys Choir of the Year competition in 1998).
Michael brings significant musical experience and vocal skills to his choral conducting.  He studied voice with Wynford Evans, and conducting at the Academie Internationale de Chant Choral with John Poole (formerly Musical Director of the BBC Singers) and Stephen Jackson (Musical Director of the BBC Symphony Chorus). Michael is in demand as a guest conductor and has led concerts throughout the UK, New Zealand, France and the US.

ANITA D'ATTELIS

Anita D’Attellis - Accompanist

Anita read music at the University of Birmingham, graduating with first class honours and winning the Arnold Goldsborough Prize.  During this time she was a piano finalist in the Essex Young Musician of the Year and the BMI competition.  The University awarded her the Barber Scholarship to continue her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where her principal tutors were Geoffrey Pratley (accompaniment) and Vanessa Latarche.
As accompanist and Chamber musician, Anita has performed in many prestigious venues, such as Birmingham Symphony Hall, Snape Maltings, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall.  She particularly enjoys solo recitals, focusing on Chopin and Liszt this year, and recently she performed the Rio Grande  - a virtuoso piano concerto with choir and orchestra - following on from her successful performances of Mozart and Shostakovich Concerti.  She regularly plays for choirs, including the Somerset Chamber Choir, Wincanton Choral Society and Spectra Musica, and during the summer she accompanied the London Welsh Rugby Club Choir for their CD recording.  As repetiteur she has played for masterclasses with the European Opera Centre.
Anita is an experienced and versatile music teacher and, in the past decade, has been appointed Head of Music at Trevor-Roberts School, Primrose Hill, and Head of Keyboard at Sherborne Girls, Dorset.  She has now relinquished her full-time teaching to enjoy the variety of a freelance career, and alongside her recitals, she teaches piano at Charterhouse and Eton College.

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