Esther Jones
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| Location | London, United Kingdom |
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| Introduction | Esther read music at Oxford University, where she was organ scholar of University College, and studied choral conducting with Patrick Russill and Paul Brough at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where she won the Irene Burcher and Thomas Armstrong prizes. She is currently Open Academy Fellow at the RAM, where she also teaches a vocal ensemble class and the LRAM choral-conducting specialism. She holds a London Symphony Chorus Conducting Scholarship and is the first Stanley Vann Scholar. She is Director of the RSCM Skills of a Church Musician educational programme and Director of Music at Christ Church, Epsom Common. She conducts the Esterhazy Singers, Stoneleigh Choral Society, Bexley Youth Choir and Christ Church Song Squad, and is assistant conductor to the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. She is also in demand across the UK as a vocal animateur and workshop leader and sings with Vox Angelica vocal trio. Esther is a former editor of Church Music Quarterly magazine and has contributed articles and reviews to publications including Choir & Organ, ABCD Mastersinger and Zone magazine. |