Conducting

Will conducts several groups in the UK.  Forthcoming events can be found on the Diary page on this site.

Somerville College Choir
Will is the Director of Chapel Music, at Somerville College, within Oxford University. He directs the auditioned 26-strong choir which sings for the regular diet of services, talks, and concerts. The group is open to those from all over Oxford, not just Somerville students.

Frideswide Voices
Frideswide Voices is the first liturgical girls choir to exist in Oxford, and has existed since September 2014.  Created for 7-14 year old girls to sing evensong in Oxford Colleges, do please get in touch if your daughter would be interested in auditioning.

Choir of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford
A paid octet that sings at High Mass at Mary Mags on Sunday mornings.  There are regular opportunities for depping, and occasional vacancies.

Ensemble 45 
Based in Oxford, this is a high quality invitational group that has appeared as part of the Oxford Early Music Festival.  It’s formed from students, recent graduates, and not-so-recent graduates, and brings together excellent singers who wouldn’t normally sing together.  Do get in touch with me if you’d like to sing with the group.  To hear snippets of us in action, please click here

Guest Conductor

Will has also worked as a conductor (or chorusmaster*) for several notable groups including:

Bath Choral Society (Director 2011-2016)
Chantage*
Choir of London
Coro
Dorking Camerata
Dulwich Choral Society*
Edinburgh University Symphony Orchestra
Eric Whitacre Singers
Henley Choral Society (Director 2007-2013)
Jerusalem Chorus
Kingston Choral Society*
Londinium*
Magdalen College Consort of Voices (Director, Michaelmas term, 2016)
Ludus Baroque (Chorus) (Chorusmaster, 2007-2016)
Milton Keynes Chorale*
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Rodolfus Choir
Scottish Chamber Choir*
Wooburn Singers

With Stile Antico, he has directed masterclasses on the Dartington International Summer School, for Zenobia Music (Avila, Spain) and with The Whiffenpoofs (Yale University, USA). He has also independently led workshop days on the music of William Byrd (Midlands early Music Forum), the Hapsburgs (Southern Early Music Forum), Alonso Lobo (Early Music Academy), Giaches de Wert (The Renaissance Singers), Tippett A Child of Our time (Bath Choral Society), and the Verdi Requiem (Henley Choral Society). He appeared as a guest conductor for Gareth Malone’s TV series: Sing while you work 2, as well as regularly leading choral weeks at La Maison Verte with Fran Steele.