• Musical Director
• Accompanist and Associate Conductor
• Committee

Musical Director- Neville Ward

Neville Ward received his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied clarinet and bassoon. He then taught in Halifax, where he developed his interest in conducting. From 1969 to 2001, Neville was Head of Music at Toot Hill School, Bingham. He has been conductor of Bingham and District Choral Society since its inception in 1972, chorus master of Scunthorpe and District Choral Society since 1981, and conductor of Ruddington and District Choral Society from 1984 to 1995, as well as conducting the Rushcliffe Chamber Orchestra.

He has conducted many concerts with professional orchestras, including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the English Sinfonia, the City of London Sinfonia and the East of England Orchestra. Neville has worked with leading vocal and instrumental soloists, and has trained choirs for performances with professional conductors including James Loughran, John Lubbock, David Lloyd-Jones and Clive Timms. He has also conducted the Band of the Irish Guards, and the Cory Band at its Centenary Concert in St David's Hall, Cardiff, in 1984.

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Accompanist & Associate Conductor - Roger Bryan

Roger was born in Cheshire and was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, where he was School Organist. He studied organ with Jonathan Bielby at Manchester Cathedral before going to Trinity Hall, Cambridge as Organ Scholar in 1970 to read music. After a postgraduate course at Cambridge, he returned to Manchester for a further period of advanced study at the Royal Northern College of Music, and received organ tuition from Gillian Weir, Lionel Rogg and Flor Peters, before taking up the post of Assistant Organist at Lincoln Cathedral in 1975.

Roger has performed recitals at cathedrals, universities, colleges and major churches both in this country and abroad. He undertook several European tours with Lincoln Cathedral Choir, both as organist and director, to countries including France, Germany and Norway. He also made a large number of recordings with the choir as conductor, soloist and accompanist, in addition to regular broadcasts from the Cathedral with them.

Roger was appointed as Master of the Song School at Newark Parish Church in July 1992, where he is responsible for the maintenance of the pre-Reformation Choral Foundation - a musical tradition unique in England outside the major cathedral and collegiate foundations. Beyond his commitments and engagements as a professional organist, Roger has a reputation as a choir-trainer, conductor and teacher, with several of his students winning Organ Scholarships and other musical distinctions to Oxford, Cambridge and elsewhere.

Roger has a special interest in working with choirs in both sacred and secular repertoire. For several years he was Musical Director of the Lincoln Chorale, Lincolnshire's well-established chamber choir. The Chorale gave concerts throughout the region and in Holland and Germany under his direction. In its regular series of concerts at Lincoln Cathedral, the choir also performed under his baton with many professional artists and orchestras.

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Committee Members

	Chairman	Jeff Crampton
	Vice Chairman	David Atkins
	Secretary	Stephen Hunt
	Treasurer	Valerie James
	Publicity	Sylvia Aldworth
	Librarian	Jane Mayglothling
	Membership	Janet Chapman
	Ordinary Members:	Beryl Cottrill

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