Andrew Fardell

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Our Musical Director is Andrew Fardell, and 2007/2008 is Andrew's 25th season in charge of the choir Andrew studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he was the winner of an instrumental award enabling him to study with Ronald Moore and with Julian Farrell. On graduating, Andrew joined the post-graduate course of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where his principal teachers were John Davies and Antony Pay.
As a clarinettist Andrew has performed with orchestras throughout the UK including the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonc Orchestra. As a conductor Andrew has worked with the Salomon Orchestra, the Oxford Sinfonia, Guernsey Camerata, the Singers of London, the Dorset Youth Orchestra and the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra. Plans for this season include a concert with the Covent Garden Chamber orchestra and return visits to the Guernsey Camerata and the Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra.
He is Director of Music at New Hall School in Chelmsford and has conducted the school choir in St. Peter's in Rome, the Duomo in Florence, St. Mark's Venice, Westminster Cathedral and on BBC television.