Registered Charity 260887
President:
Professor Gavin Henderson CBE
Vice-Presidents:
Mrs Sheila McFarlane, Dr Michael Barley,
George Bowles
Accompanist - Muriel Hart MBE
Stella
Hull became only the second Conductor of the Brighton Orpheus Choir in autumn 1999.
She had studied singing in London with John Carol Case and is a contralto soloist.
After gaining a BMus from Birmingham University, Stella began teaching music to A Level in secondary schools in Worcestershire and West Midlands. After teaching music in various primary schools in Staffordshire she became the County Advisory Teacher for Music. Married with two daughters, she moved with her family to Lewes in 1996.
She teaches singing privately and conducts the Lewes Junior Choir and the Lewes Youth Choir. She has recently directed the music for the Lewes Passion Play. Working with the Brighton Orpheus Choir she has directed performances including Bach's Christmas Oratorio and St.Matthew Passion, Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Haydn's Nelson and St Nicholas masses, and most recently The Creation, Mozart's Requiem and Mass in C, Beethoven's Mass in C, Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise, Brahms' Requiem and Song of Destiny, Fauré's Requiem, Elgar's The Kingdom and The Music Makers, Poulenc's Gloria, Dvořák's Te Deum, Vaughan Williams' Benedicite and Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Britten's St Nicolas and Ceremony of Carols, John Rutter's Requiem, Feel the Spirit, Psalmfest and Mass of the Children, and Karl Jenkins' Sacred Songs and Te Deum.