Musical Director - Philip Robinson
- Musical Director and Accompanist -
Musical Director - Philip Robinson
Philip has been immersed in music all his life. He began his career at age 9 when he became a chorister at Durham Cathedral, eventually following his brothers as Head Chorister. He later studied piano and organ at the Royal College of Music and was awarded a First Class degree.
Since 1980 Philip has been based in Nottingham and currently maintains a balance between teaching and performing as a freelance musician. He has broad musical interests extending from baroque to jazz. He particularly enjoys accompanying whether it be on the piano or harpsichord (his favourite instrument) and he also has a great interest in choral music. He has been involved with the Nottingham Harmonic Society and the Nottingham Bach Choir and of course was the Musical Director of Grantham Choral Society for five very successful seasons until April 2006. We are delighted to welcome Philip back as our Musical Director for an interim period while a permanent MD is appointed. He takes on this position alongside his role as accompanist to the internationally famous girls' choir Cantamus in Mansfield.
Alongside his post at the Grantham Choral Society, Tim serves as Organist and Director of Music at Grantham Parish Church - St Wulfram's. At St Wulfram's, Tim is responsible for overseeing and directing the musical life of a major parish church, training and conducting the choir of young people and adults, developing musical provision for worship, and working collaboratively with other churches, schools and societies to broaden participation in church music. He also directs a new chamber choir based at St Wulfram's, which was established in the summer of 2008 to sing Renaissance polyphony.
Other current work includes serving as Music Leader on a major youth music regeneration project in Manchester, leading towards a mass choir performance in Manchester Cathedral in November 2008, in which Tim will direct movements from Michael Tippett's Child of our Time and Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. In addition to his activities as a piano and organ teacher in the Grantham area, Tim still supervises the work of undergraduates at Cambridge University in music history and analysis. He also studies the organ with Paul Hale at Southwell Minster and choral conducting with Colin Durrant in London.
Previous musical posts have included a two-year stint as Assistant Music Director of St Andrew's Church, Chesterton in Cambridge, Accompanist of the Cambridgeshire Choral Society, and a year based at Iona Abbey in 2005 as Resident Musician in the Iona Community.
She was born in Grantham and on her return in 1980, quickly established a very successful private piano teaching practice in the town. She joined Edna Chapman as a Society accompanist in 1984 replacing Evelyn Dawes and has been the sole accompanist since 1993 which is a huge task. Sally is one of the most highly valued musicians in the area both as a talented teacher and a performer of great sensitivity. Although she has to devote most of her time to teaching she gives solo recitals and also performs piano duets with our Musical Director and President, Philip Robinson. Sally is also very helpful to amateur musicians and consequently she is in great demand during the annual Grantham Music Festival Competition. She is particularly interested in the Church Choral Tradition and in 1997 became the first female member of St. Wulfram's Church Choir Grantham.
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Assistant Musical Director - Tim Williams
Tim Williams, our new Assistant Musical Director and also Musical Director of the Choral Society's Youth Choir, is a professional musician with significant experience of directing, performing, accompanying, teaching and researching music at the highest levels. He holds a First-Class Honours Degree in Music, and also a Distinction-level MPhil Degree in Musicology, from St Catharine's College, Cambridge. His PhD in Musicology on the mid-Victorian reception of the symphony, supervised by Dr Martin Ennis and Professor Roger Parker, was submitted in June 2008 and he awaits the viva examination later this year. During the final six months of his PhD, he also served in a temporary post as Lecturer and Director of Studies in Music at Trinity College, Cambridge, before moving permanently to Grantham.
Accompanist - Sally Anthony
The Society accompanist is Sally Anthony. Sally graduated with a B.Mus. degree from the University of Sheffield studying
piano and voice. Subsequently she obtained her music teaching diploma from Trinity College, London.
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