Valentine Singers

Christine became musical director of the Valentine Singers in January 1998, since when the choir has grown to a membership of 70 plus, has toured in the UK and abroad, broadcast on TV and recorded two CDs. Main choral works, including Bach St Matthew Passion, Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Bernstein Chichester Psalms and Brahms Requiem – to stray no further through the alphabet –  form the core of the choir’s repertoire, which also includes a wide variety of smaller scale pieces as well as extracts, occasionally semi-staged, from music theatre.   Recent tours include Lucca, Pisa and Florence (2006), Ely cathedral and surrounding area (2007), Kraków (2008), Canterbury (2009), Amiens (2010) and Winchester cathedral and nearby villages (2011). They have also sung in London at the Coliseum, at All Saints, Margaret Street and at the Royal Festival Hall.    Visit the Valentine Singers' website 

Writtle Singers 

The Writtle Singers has an established history as a chamber choir based in the picturesque village of Writtle, near Chelmsford. Christine became the conductor in the autumn of 1997, since when she has led the choir in concerts of music from medieval times to the present day. Motets, madrigals and part-songs feature in programmes alongside many somewhat larger choral works, such as JS Bach Magnifcat, St John Passion and Mass in B minor, Haydn Nelson Mass, Mozart Mass in C minor(all performed with orchestra), as well as some lighter and less traditional items! The Singers have broadcast twice for the BBC and released their third CD in 2009.  They have undertaken three continental concert tours, to Antwerp, to Prague and to Zurich (2011); in 2007 they made a highly successful tour of Yorkshire singing at both Bolton Abbey and York Minster and in 2009, sung to a packed house in Cambridge. They have also performed at London's Southbank and in Chelmsford Cathedral.  In 2011 they gave a concert by invitation the Stondon Massey  William Byrd festival.    Visit the Writtle Singers' website

Tuneful Accord 

Tuneful Accord is the name of the vocal ensemble formed by Christine for the Through Changing Scenes events. In fact, the first event, in 1993, was actually entitled Tuneful Accord (see the hymn O praise ye the Lord, verse 2 if you’re wondering why) and the group subsequently pinched the name. It is a flexible ensemble, both in terms of numbers - usually somewhere between 12 and 18 - and in what we are required to perform - anything from plainsong to the Muppetts; we have even been known to Maypole dance (after a fashion) and to form a very idiosyncratic gallery band. Inevitably the group has been asked about singing at other events; unsurprisingly, we have never been asked to provide the band.  To date, we have sung for a couple of weddings and we gave our first recital in September 2006 - in addition to 28 TCS performances in over 20 different venues.