Sandy Chenery is Director of Music at Brighton College. Prior to this his career encompassed ensemble singing, oratorio, recital work and opera. For over 10 years he sang daily services in several of the Country’s leading Choral Foundations including Wells Cathedral, St Mary’s Cathedral Edinburgh and latterly St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle. As an oratorio singer he has performed many of the major works in the repertoire, among them Handel’s, Dixit Dominus, Saul, Solomon and Messiah, the Bach Passions and B minor Mass and he made his Albert Hall debut in a performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. He has travelled extensively in the USA and Europe performing as a soloist and with the Scottish Ensemble Cappella Nova with whom he made many recordings and broadcasts. As a choir trainer and singing teacher he worked for Berkshire Young Musicians’ Trust conducting and coaching the award-winning Berkshire Boys Choir and working with the Berkshire Youth Choir, twice winners of Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year. He is also in demand as a choral workshop leader most recently at the Wigmore Hall and with primary school children at Eton College. We are delighted to welcome him for his first visit to the Watford Festival in 2010.

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• Competitors requiring an accompanist should contact Shirley Woods Tel: 020 8440 7609

• Please time your songs carefully and make sure they do not exceed the time limit. You may sing two short songs in a class if you wish.