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 within the East Sussex County Music Service, and conducts the Lewes Junior Choir and the East Sussex County Junior Girls' Choir. Working with the Brighton Orpheus Choir she has directed performances including Vivaldi's Gloria, Bach's St.Matthew Passion, Handel's Messiah, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, Elgar's The Kingdom, Poulenc's Gloria, the Requiems of Brahms and Fauré, 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.