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Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is a British singer, composer and choral leader. A Master of Arts music graduate of Oxford University, she began composing as Soprano/MD of the multi award-winning vocal group The Swingles, her style reflecting a love of choral music, close harmony and jazz. As well as church music, she writes songs including for The King’s Singers, The Military Wives Choirs and the NYCGB and has become the go-to composer for songs about women.
David Halls
David Halls won an Organ Scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford where he passed both the Associate and Fellowship Examinations of The Royal College of Organists in the same year, being awarded five prizes and the Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He was appointed Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral in September 2005. In addition to his daily duties in the cathedral, he has toured extensively and recorded with the cathedral choirs. In demand as a recitalist in cathedrals and churches throughout the UK, he has recorded four solo CDs on the Willis Organ in Salisbury Cathedral and he has also recorded on the organ of St Wilfrid’s Church, Harrogate. His organ DVD and CD The Grand Organ of Salisbury Cathedral was released in 2012 to great acclaim.
Thomas Hewitt Jones
Thomas Hewitt Jones is an award-winning composer of contemporary classical and commercial music. Since winning the BBC Young Composer Competition in his teens, his music has been published by many of the major music publishers and is frequently heard in concert and on radio, TV and in the cinema. Thomas’s diverse catalogue includes small instrumental, orchestral, choral and ballet works, and his large number of choral titles (mostly published by the RSCM) includes service music & many seasonal works. Thomas is also a composer of Library (Production) music for several commercial publishers, with a current catalogue of around a thousand tracks available for licensing which can be heard on a variety of media worldwide. He works from his own cutting-edge studio facility.
Grayston Ives
Bill Ives has spent his life in choral music – as a singer, conductor, teacher and composer (writing as Grayston Ives). He was a chorister at Ely Cathedral, a Lay Clerk at Guildford Cathedral, and a member of the King’s Singers, with whom he recorded and performed worldwide. For eighteen years he directed the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. He now works as a freelance composer and arranger.
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