Our Directors

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	Robin Martin-Oliver, director, was trained at the Royal Northern College of music as a singer. After winning second prize in the International Singing competition at s'Hertogenbosch in Holland he went straight into major roles with Glyndebourne Opera, Welsh National Opera and Covent Garden. After ten years as a professional singer he turned to directing and he has been directing now for almost 20 years. He has worked with Sir Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, Phillip Prowse and Tim Albery. His own productions are numerous and include plays for the Edinburgh Festival and opera for Channel Four. He also composes and, having already written two musicals, he is now half-way through his first opera. For further details, please see Robin's web site or the Jack the Ripper web site.
	Peter Cowdrey, musical director, won music scholarships to Winchester College and Trinity College Cambridge. He spent three years in Tonga, and toured with world music group Orbestra. Peter’s works have been premiered in the Royal Albert Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and at the Istanbul and Schleswig Holstein Festivals. He is the pianist in Jubovski, a Trio playing music inspired by Eastern European gypsies, and The Conference of Birds who perform music and dance inspired by birdsong. They recently travelled to the Amazon with funding from the British Council.
	Recent premieres include a quartet for the Brodskys. In May Peter’s comic opera The Lovely Ladies, with a libretto by Hamish Robinson and based on Michael Broadbent’s wine diaries, was premiered at Christies, with a cast led by Michael Chance and Marie McLaughlin. Also in May, Sorrowful Glen, a site-specific work for ten brass instruments, was premiered at Glenborrodale Castle in Ardnamurchan. In September Peter will conduct Dido and Aeneas in Madrid for Peninsular Opera.
	Gill Garside is our chorus director.  More information to follow...