SAM EVANS,
Musical Director
Sam Evans is a professional singer, conductor and teacher. As well as directing BCS, he is musical director of many other choirs. He is much in demand as a guest chorus master and workshop leader for choirs and is a highly experienced singing teacher.
As a professional baritone, Sam performs throughout the UK and internationally in opera, oratorio and song.
Sam has sung with many of the major professional consorts in Britain including the BBC Singers, Polyphony, the Gabrieli Consort, The King’s Consort and The Sixteen. He is most closely associated with the Monteverdi Choir, with whom he has been performing for many years.
BENEDICT LEWIS-SMITH,
Accompanist
Benedict Lewis-Smith was organ scholar at The Queen’s College, Oxford (2007-2010), and prior to this was awarded a place as a specialist musician and organ scholar at Wells Cathedral School, Somerset. He is now Director of Music at St Columba’s Church, Knightsbridge and combines this role with a substantial freelance career in London including vocal coaching, accompanying and conducting. He currently conducts the office choirs of BNY Mellon, Fidelity International and News Choir UK.
He has broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and recently recorded on the digital label Resonus Classics and Regent Records. Recent performances include recitals in the Victoria International Arts Festival, Gozo, and a concert tour of Buenos Aires, where he delivered classes in English song to the students at the Departamento de Artes Musicales y Sonoras.
Previously Director of Music at St. George’s School, Windsor Castle, he now works with choirs at Westminster School and Hill House International Preparatory School in London. He also performs alongside Julian Collings as the Oxbridge Organ Duo, with recent performances in Kristiansand Cathedral (Norway) and St George’s Basilica (Gozo).
Their debut CD ‘Firebird’, on the Regent Records label, was released to great critical acclaim in 2018.
More information at www.benlewissmith.co.uk
BCS is run by a committee which takes care of
all aspects of the choir
Jeremy Nicholson
Chair
Lucy Newmark
Committee Secretary
Gillian Broadley
Treasurer
Janet Bonthron
Membership Secretary
Nicola Ellard
Hazel Johnson
Concert Management
Diana Macfarlane
Sponsorship & Advertising,
Programme/Website Editor
TBA
Music Librarian
Louise Riley
Social Media/Publicity
Section Leaders
Herjoyt Ubhi & Jane Hatton - Sopranos
Amanda Cryer & Maddie Cannon - Altos
Robert Busch - Tenors
Iestyn Roberts - Basses