Marian has lived in Ringmer for over 20 years, and has become well-known on the concert platform throughout the area. She is a member of New Sussex Opera, with whom she has performed various principal roles. Marian sings regularly with the New Sussex Singers and as a guest soloist with the Lewes Concert Orchestra. She has also been guest soprano with choirs in Eastbourne, Hailsham, Battle, Hassocks, Brighton and Lewes.

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.

Muriel has been an accompanist to the choir for over fifty years. 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!

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