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.
Stella read music at Birmingham University, obtaining both a B.Mus and PGCE. She began teaching music in secondary schools in Worcestershire and the West Midlands, then broadened her experience by teaching music in primary schools. After this she became County Advisory Teacher for Music in Staffordshire.
She teaches singing privately and conducts the Lewes Junior Choir and the Lewes Youth Choir. Working with the Brighton Orpheus Choir she has directed performances including Vivaldi's Gloria, Purcell's Come, ye sons of Art, Bach's Christmas Oratorio and St.Matthew Passion, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's St Nicholas Mass, Mozart's Requiem and Mass in C, Mendelsohn's Hymn of Praise, Brahms' Requiem and Song of Destiny, Fauré's Requiem, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, 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, and Rutter's Requiem, Feel the Spirit and Psalmfest.