Having graduated with first-class honours for a B.Mus at Royal Holloway, University of London, Dominic received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to continue with an M.Mus at the same institution. He then spent a year working (and living) at Westminster Cathedral, before returning to academia for a PhD, supported by a Doctoral Fellowship, at Durham University. In 2012 he was awarded his PhD, which focused on the concept of retrospection in the music of James MacMillan, with regard to religious, political and musical traditions. He has published book chapters and journal articles for Cambridge University Press and Routledge on the music of MacMillan, Thomas Adès and David Lang, and his research interests include issues of modernism and postmodernism, religious music and the contemporary British music scene.  For the last decade, Dominic has worked at BBC Radio 3, where he is lead producer for the Wigmore Hall lunchtime concerts series. At Radio 3 he also produces Essential Classics, Night Tracks, Radio 3 in Concert, Proms, and the New Generation Artists scheme. He writes for ABRSM publications and record companies including Naxos and Ondine, and is also the conductor of the Orpington Chorale.

Zoe Barnett is a classical guitarist who is currently studying at the Royal College of Music for a Master of Performance where she is generously supported by the Derek Butler Trust and the Sussex Young Musician Award. In 2022, Zoe enjoyed performances in Wigmore Hall, Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall. She was awarded the title of Sussex Young Musician of The Year 2022 and first prize in the Guitar Competition at the RCM. Zoe is currently an awardee of the International Guitar Foundation’s ‘Young Artist Platform’ where she has performed in the London Guitar Festival at Kings Place and has premiered new repertoire for the guitar.

Izy completed both her Bachelor of Music and Master of Performance at the Royal College of Music in London, winning a scholarship place in 2015 and graduating in 2021 with Distinction. Izy studied oboe under the tuition of John Anderson, Fabien Thouand, Juliana Koch, and Olivier Stankiewicz, and cor anglais with Christine Pendrill and Jane Marshall.

Stone Tung was born in Hong Kong and has started learning trumpet at the age of 6, alongside piano and voice. A graduate of the Chetham’s School of Music, he is now studying at the Royal College of Music, London, with Mark Calder, James Fountain and Kate Moore on a full scholarship supported by the Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Trust. He has participated in masterclasses with Gustav Melander, Paul Archibald and Henning Kraggerud

Our concert tickets are now available online. Simply visit Ticketsource to purchase yours for our Summer Concert before 18th June. Tickets will also be available on the door for both cash and card payments.

Emily Singh, 26, is a conductor, clarinettist, and pianist based in Kent.

Described as “poised and precise”, Emily has been conducting since university where she founded and led several ensembles: she co-founded the university’s first auditioned wind ensemble while studying a Bachelor’s degree in Music…

The Soloist for our Christmas Concert on Saturday December 14 2019 is Zoë Perkins.

Zoë began her musical career at the age of 7 playing the cornet but soon moved to playing the trumpet when she began lessons with Cambridge based teacher Michel Sedgwick. In 2013 Zoë commenced her studies at the Royal Academy of Music …

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Hogan as Musical director for our 70th season. Daniel Hogan is 22 and an aspiring conductor who, as described by players in the Watford Youth Sinfonia, ‘draws emotion out of each individual player’ and ‘has a similar musical maturity to much older conductors’.

Our next concert will present Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, featuring Cello soloist Akito Goto.

Akito Goto was born in 1995 and started playing the cello at the age of 5; from the age of eight to thirteen he studied at the renowned Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan under the tutelage of Hakuro Mori. At thirteen he was accepted to study with Pal Banda at the Purcell School of Music in London, and since 2013 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the class of Louise Hopkins.