Can’t wait to launch @officialuom.bsky.social Chorus this week, with Elgar’s ‘The Dream of Gerontius’. We sing two concerts per year with our Symphony Orchestra and now is the perfect time to join us! Thursday 2nd October 7-9pm - taster rehearsal - just turn up! Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall

Can’t wait to be back with University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra for some epic repertoire this year - Pines of Rome and Mahler 1 both on the cards! First up, our Free Concert on 15th October ahead of our orchestral auditions 👇 www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/qgs...

Looking forward to launching a very exciting project next week - Beethoven 9! Ahead of the performance in April 2026 bringing together Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra, Congleton Choral Society & Salford Choral Society I am running a Sing Day on Oct 4th in Salford www.salfordchoral.org.uk/sing-days

And that’s a wrap on our first project of the year. Great to welcome new students to our department with a chorus and orchestra project in welcome week! Thanks to Matthew our student repiteteur and student conductors for great work on the podium! @officialuom.bsky.social

And we’re off! Great to be back at it with our super students at @officialuom.bsky.social A huge welcome to our new students who are working hard this week to put together a concert as they settle into the swing of things, all led by student conductors and repiteteur! #uniofmanchester

Come & Sing with @officialuom.bsky.social Chorus! We’re kicking a very exciting year off with a Come & Sing afternoon on Saturday 27th September in Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall in the Martin Harris Centre -1pm start. All welcome - no need to register just turn up! FREE ENTRY!

Great to be back with the team at University of Warwick Music Centre gearing up for another busy year! Some fantastic orchestral music planned including Pines of Rome, Mahler 1, Grace Williams Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes and Gershwin American in Paris! #orchestra #conductor #uniofwarwick

Great to be back with Salford Choral Society tonight! Matthew Coleridge’s Requiem and Handel Dixit Dominus to kick-start our new season!

My 2025/26 season has lift off! So many exciting projects and events to look forward to with super colleagues and musical friends! First up, rehearsals with Congleton Choral Society & Congleton Community Choir tonight - so glad to be back with my choirs! #conductor #seasonlaunch #202526season

The end of a wonderful and absolutely crazy Summer - but I wouldn’t have it any other way. My heart is so full and I feel so lucky. Now I’m having 5 full days OFF before I kick-start my 2025/26 season! Alles Gute aus Nürnberg!

The end of a fantastic week with a group of super students from @officialuom.bsky.social have given amazing performances. Our welcome is Chemnitz couldn’t have been warmer! We are leaving with full hearts and many new friends and we can’t wait to welcome you to Manchester in November!

The final concert of our residency is underway in Neukirchen. Thanks to our super singers for their hard work this week and to everyone here in Germany for looking after us so well and giving us a week we will never forget.

This morning our singers visited Einsiedel Grammar School, where they met the students and helped them practise their English speaking and gave a short performance before lunch! Thanks for the invite!

German debut ✅ One of the greatest honours of my career has been to lead tonight’s performance of Gerontius in Chemnitz! So many thanks to the wonderful singers from Kantorei der Kreuzkirche Chemnitz, the superb Robert Schumann Philharmonie…1/2

A beautiful morning in Chemnitz for a short performance in the city square to a very large audience!

Today’s the day! If I have any friends anywhere near Chemnitz, join us at 5pm for The Dream of Gerontius! A few tickets still available 👇 www.theater-chemnitz.de/spielplan/de...

Generalprobe! A super day putting everything together for our Gerontius tomorrow. It’s sounding amazing and I cannot wait for the show tomorrow! Thanks everyone for such amazing work! #dirigent #choral #classical #Elgar

Today has been a total joy! To rehearse a masterpiece such as Gerontius with an orchestra that plays so much opera was amazing! And we have three super soloists to match! Can’t wait to add the chorus in tomorrow! #Gerontius #dirigent

What a super spot for some score study! Arrived in Chemnitz and really excited to get going on our Gerontius! #conductor #choral #Elgar

And we’re off! Two days of rehearsals with @officialuom.bsky.social Chamber Choir with six student conductors before we fly to Chemnitz in Germany for our week-long residency!

Two days back at home and lots of study to be done! #conductor #Elgar #choral #Gerontius

Places are selling fast for our Sing Day on Beethoven’s Choral Symphony at Salford Choral Society! Saturday 4th October - Hemsley House, Salford Crescent, M5 4PE 🎟️ www.salfordchoral.org.uk/sing-days

And so my month on the road begins! All settled in sunny Buxton for the next two weeks working on the Buxton Opera House Summer School! #conductor #ontheroad #MusicalTheatre #buxton

A busy and exciting August! I’m very much looking forward to taking @officialuom.bsky.social Chamber Choir for a week-long residency in Chemnitz, Germany!

I’ve led singing workshops pretty much everywhere but in a cave was a first! A lovely hour of singing as part of the Buxton Opera House Outdoor Opera House! #singing #caves #cold #Buxton

And my 2024/25 season comes to an end with a lovely concert today with Congleton Community Choir! Feeling so grateful for some amazing projects with very special friends and colleagues! Time for a bit of reflection, lots of planning and bid writing and some exciting Summer projects!

Really excited to be launching one of my big projects for next season - Beethoven 9! Bringing together Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra Salford Choral Society & Congleton Choral Society! I’m running a singing day on the piece on 4th October in #Salford 🎟️ www.salfordchoral.org.uk/sing-days

A lovely concert this evening with Congleton Community Choir to a full audience! Thanks everyone for your hard work, and of course to Kevin Birch on piano and our conducting intern Phœbe Wright! #Congleton #choral #communitychoir

Rounding off a super first year as Director of the Choral Programme at @officialuom.bsky.social by taking our chamber choir on a musical exchange to Chemnitz, Germany. They will be performing The Dream of Gerontius and giving two choral concerts in a week-long residency in August! 🇩🇪

A super opportunity for an emerging conductor to come work with us at University of Warwick! www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/63940 Feel free to shoot me any questions and do share to anyone who might be interested!!

A lovely day of singing workshops, wonderfully led by Keelan Carew on 3,2,1, Blast Off by Samuel Kane which Year 5 students from three #Buxton Primary Schools have helped to create and will perform with #orchestra on Tuesday! @buxtonfestival.bsky.social 🪐 🚀

Delighted to be bringing @officialuom.bsky.social Chamber Choir to sing Neptune from the Planets at the @buxtonfestival.bsky.social Space Day next week! 🪐 🚀 #BIFSpaceDay #buxton #orchestra #choir

Good to be back at @officialuom.bsky.social to bring together 2025/26 chamber choir and chorus conductors and managers - lots of exciting projects in the pipeline! #watchthisspace #conducting #choral #Manchester #UniofManchester

A great pleasure to conduct #Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra in the final concert of their season, and what an epic programme it was! Thanks to Maia Rey Macia, our assistant conductor and of course the super Rosy Williams leading! Looking forward immensely to our 2026 projects! #conductor

I’ve done singing workshops pretty much everywhere but this is a first - in a cave!! Join me for a singing session at Poole’s Cavern in #Buxton on 3rd August as part of #OutdoorOperaHouse 🎟️ buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/event/singin...

Coming up this week with Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra! Lots of notes - going to be a great concert! Saturday 7th June, 7.30pm Wilmslow Leisure Centre

We’re so passionate at @officialuom.bsky.social about giving our student conductors as much experience as we can both in and out of uni. Maia Rey Macia has been assisting me with Wilmslow Symphony and tonight she was on the podium! Many Thanks to the orchestra!

Loving preparing this programme with Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra! I last did Pines in my college days so it’s great to conduct it again and the suite from Coq D’Or is new to me! Catch us in concert on 7th June! #conductor #orchestra #Cheshire #classical

Really looking forward to heading back to #Buxton for the @buxtonfestival.bsky.social Space Day! Local primary school children have helped create a new song which they will sing before hearing music from Holst’s ‘The Planets’ arranged for chamber ensemble, along with projections and poetry!

Such an inspiring day watching the final round of auditions for the @officialuom.bsky.social conducting programme! My first year in this role has gone by so quickly and I’m so looking forward to everything that’s coming up! Amazing as ever to work with the super Rob Guy!

Lots of notes today starting to put together Prokofiev 2 with University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra and the fantastic soloist Max Li. Love conducting concertos!! #conductor

Really enjoying getting stuck into Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 with University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra - and yes, torn score pages already! Looking forward to our first rehearsal with soloist Max Li next week! #conductor #concerto #classical #Prokofiev

So many notes but so wonderful to be back with Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra! A super programme with very many notes! Great to be joined by The University of Manchester conducting student Maia Rey Macia as assistant and of course Rosy TJ Williams leading the orchestra! #conductor

Looking forward to starting my second project with Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra later this week. Concert on 7th June! Lots and lots of notes, but a very exciting programme! #conductor #orchestral #classical

A lovely weekend of Poulenc with friends old and new in Somerset! Thanks everyone!

A lovely start to a choral weekend in Dunster on Poulenc’s Gloria! And what a lovely setting! #conductor #Poulenc #choral

It’s great to be back with University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra to launch our Term 3 music. On the stand tonight is Stravinsky Firebird and Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 and for the concert we will be joined by student pianist Max Li, who won our concerto competition in 2023. #conductor

Really enjoying getting stuck into Prokofiev 2 🎹- a new learn for me! Can’t wait to start rehearsals with University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday! #conductor #concerto #Prokofiev #classical #uniofwarwick

A mad five weeks of intense conducts came to an end today with a lovely concert with Congleton Community Choir! Thanks everyone for super singing! I’m so proud of all we do in #Congleton - choral singing really is alive and well, as is support for the arts! Now for some downtime!

Thrilling concert tonight with Congleton Choral Society, Acceler8 Band, Rachel Fright, Rachel Abbott & Jef Sparkes! Thanks all for such a wonderful collaboration and an emotional musical journey, culminating in text that has even deeper meaning today that when it was first performed.