The London Chorus appoints William Vann as Musical Director
Written by Simon Heffer, Chairman of The London Chorus
I am delighted, on behalf of the Council of The London Chorus, to announce that after an exhaustive process of interviews and auditioning we have decided to appoint William Vann as our new Musical Director, succeeding the late Ronald Corp, who sadly died earlier this year. Will has already made a formidable mark in the musical world as a conductor, choirmaster and accompanist, with many recordings already to his name. He was the Council’s unanimous choice to take the choir forward, renew it and develop it, and we are exceptionally lucky to have him. I know I speak for all our members in wishing him a long, happy and fruitful association with The London Chorus.
About Will Vann
A multiple-prize winning and critically acclaimed choral, orchestral and opera conductor and song accompanist, William Vann is equally at home on the podium or at the piano and is particularly renowned for his revival performances and recordings of lost and lesser-known works of vocal and choral music by British composers.
Born in Bedford, he was a Chorister at King’s College, Cambridge and a Music Scholar at Bedford School. He subsequently read law and took up a choral scholarship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was taught the piano by Peter Uppard, and studied piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music with Malcolm Martineau and Colin Stone.
William is also the founder and Artistic Director of the London English Song Festival, the Director of Music at the Royal Hospital Chelsea and the Music Director of Dulwich Choral Society. He is an Associate of the RAM, a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, a Trustee of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, a Samling Artist, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, the Chairman of Kensington and Chelsea Music Society and a regular conductor and vocal coach at the Dartington and Oxenfoord International Summer Schools.