Vocal Classes 2026

Saturday 21 March - Sunday 22 March

Delrow Community Hall, Hilfield Lane,

Aldenham, Watford, WD25 8DJ

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST CREATE A USER ACCOUNT AT LEAST 7 DAYS PRIOR TO THE CLOSING DATE

 Ben Parry  https://www.benparry.net/

Ben Parry has a busy career as a conductor, composer, singer, arranger and music producer. He is director of the professional choir London Voices with whom he has performed in major concert houses around the world as well as conducting many major film soundtracks including Harry Potter, The Hobbit and Avengers.  He studied Music and History of Art at Cambridge University, where he was a member of King’s College Choir.  In the mid-1980s he joined the international vocal group The Swingle Singers, with whom he toured globally and performed with some of the world’s greatest musicians including Stephane Grappelli, Pierre Boulez and Dizzy Gillespie.  Moving to Edinburgh in 1995, he co-founded the Dunedin Consort, which has gone on to establish itself as Scotland’s premiere Baroque ensemble.  He moved back to England in 2003 and has since held various prestigious directorial posts at St. Paul’s School, London, Junior Royal Academy of Music, King’s College Cambridge, Aldeburgh Festival and most recently as Director the National Youth Choir, stepping down in 2023 after 11 successful years. As an orchestral conductor he has worked with the Academy of Ancient Music, Britten Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony, London Philharmonic and BBC Concert Orchestras.  Ben’s own compositions and arrangements include an extensive catalogue of choral music for Peters Edition, Faber Music and OUP.  He has enjoyed commissions from, among others, St John’s College Cambridge, BBC Singers, VOCES8, Chelmsford, Ely, Norwich and Worcester cathedrals, and his music has been heard at the BBC Proms and on the TV and radio. Ben features on the credits of well over 300 recordings, broadcasts and film soundtracks.