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| CHAIRMAN - COLIN SIMMONS | MUSICAL DIRECTOR - DAVID BRAY | ACCOMPANIST - JAMES MORRIS |
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Colin was born in Bedworth and now lives in Nuneaton. He
took up singing at 17 and studied under the late Phyllis Marlow. He was
a member of the Guildhall Amateur Operatic Society in Coventry for 10
years before
being invited to join the Nuneaton Pantomime and Revue Society to play
the part of Jud Fry in Oklahoma. He stayed with them for 6 years taking
leading roles in all their productions. He sang with
Fillongley Singers for 5 years and joined Bedworth Singers
in 1998. Since becoming Chairman in 2000 he has increased membership
three
fold and has also organised many concerts with them.
Colin has also produced three Civic Command Performances at the Civic Hall in aid of various Mayor’s charities. He organized the Voices for Hospices concerts in October 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2007 at the Civic Hall raising in excess of £14,000 for the Hospice. He has sung at the Picnic Proms concert at the Hospice in 2004, 2005 2006 and 2007. In July 2005 he organised and produced the first ever local Young Voices for Hospices involving over 300 children from the local area, raising £2450 for the Hospice. He agreed to do another one at the Civic Hall on the 4th April 2008 and it was a sell out with 250 local children performing brass band music, dance and singing raising £4000 for the Mary Ann Evans Hospice. Why does he do it - because he thinks it is important for local people to be given the opportunity to perform in the local theatre raising money for important local causes. |
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David Bray has played the trumpet with many of the UK's
leading orchestras. He has performed as a soloist at venues such as the
Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Kings College Chapel Cambridge. He
has conducted a wide range of choirs, bands and orchestras at the
Albert Hall London, Symphony Hall Birmingham and the Royal Festival
London. He recently conducted the Fiorosa Chamber Choir at St John
Smith's Square in London to great critical acclaim.He has
taken three different choirs to the final rounds of the televised Choir
of the Year competition and won prizes conducting choirs at Montreux,
Riva del Garda and in the National Festival of Music for Youth. An
adjudicator described a choir that he conducted as 'extremely fine in
every way'. David is a school's inspector, formerly County Music adviser for Northamptonshire and on Saturdays can often be found refereeing football matches for his local under-nines team. He regards this is a more stressful experience than performing music in front of a critical audience. |
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James studied music at the University of Huddersfield, specialising in piano performance. He has achieved his Diploma from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in piano performance. James has vast experience as an accompanist and pianist. He has worked for the Nuneaton Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society, and is regularly an accompanist for Associated Board music examinations and the Nuneaton Festival of Arts. He has worked as Musical Director for the Spa Theatre Company. James plays flute and piccolo with the Bedworth Symphony Orchestra, and also plays all sizes of recorder with the Nuneaton branch of the Society of Recorder Players, for which he is currently Musical Director. |
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