The Lewes Youth Choir is a small chamber choir of students aged 11 and over.  It meets in the Priory School chapel on Saturday mornings during term-time as part of the Lewes Music Centre (in turn part of the East Sussex County Music service).  Stella Hull has been conducting the choir since September last year.

Peter Mansfield studied music at York University under Wilfrid Manners, and then under Alan Vicar in Shoreham.  Peter teaches keyboard and brass for the East Sussex Music Service and assists Stella Hull with the Lewes Youth Choir.

Muriel has been an accompanist to the choir for over sixty years this year. She has spent all her life in Brighton and has thus become well-known in local music circles.

For twenty years she taught at Patcham Junior School, specialising in music, and has seen several past pupils become highly regarded professional musicians. After a year as a lecturer at the former College of Education, she became Music Adviser for primary schools in the Brighton, Hove and Portslade area. During this time she was also responsible for three levels of training orchestras which fed the Brighton Youth Orchestra.  She now directs the Golden Age Singers in Lewes and a U3A Singing Group. For many years she has been an active member of the Sussex Musicians' Club and is its Honorary Secretary. Accompanying singers and instrumentalists is her special interest. She is also a very keen gardener!

After obtaining a BMus from Birmingham University, Stella began teaching music to A Level in secondary schools in Worcestershire and the West Midlands. After teaching music in various primary schools in Staffordshire she became the County Advisory Teacher for Music.

Stella studied singing in London with John Carol Case and is a contralto soloist. She teaches singing privately and within the East Sussex County Music Service and conducts the Lewes Junior Choir and the East Sussex County Junior Girls' Choir. She began conducting the Brighton Orpheus Choir in September 1999 and has since then directed all its performances including Vivaldi's Gloria, Handel's Messiah, Poulenc's Gloria, the Requiem of both Brahms and Fauré, Britten's Saint Nicolas, Rutter's Feel the Spirit, Haydn's St Nicholas Mass and Bach's St Matthew Passion.

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