LYC people
SENIOR MUSIC TEAMInspirational leadership is one of the most important things we can offer our young singers. Led by Artistic Director, Rachel Staunton, our Senior Music Team are all choral conductors with many years experience of drawing the very best from young people. Our conductors encourage, nurture and challenge the members of their choirs, giving them a fantastically engaging and enlightening musical experience.

ANDY KING
Conductor
Andy is a conductor and music teacher based in London. Having studied music and a PGCE at Newcastle and Durham Universities, Andy has forged a successful teaching career in the arts working at schools in Durham and North Yorkshire before moving to London.
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BEN VONBERG-CLARK
Conductor
Ben has been teaching primary aged children since his year abroad in a children’s theatre in Vienna in 2008. He set up the three children’s choirs of St. John the Divine, Kennington, in 2013, where 80 children aged 5-18 now attend weekly rehearsals and perform in concerts around the country; they have also broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 and have a partnership with St. John’s College, Cambridge.
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Ben studied music and German at Durham University, University of Vienna, King’s College London and as a postgraduate in vocal studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Alongside his conducting, he is seen regularly on the oratorio and recital circuit and has sung with the BBC Singers, the Sixteen, Stile Antico, Tenebrae and the Eric Whitacre Singers among others. In 2019 he performed a solo recital as part of the Aldeburgh festival.

RACHEL STAUNTON
Artistic Director
Rachel is a conductor, music educator and co-founder of the London Youth Choirs. Having studied music at Royal Holloway, University of London, Rachel continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with numerous awards and an LRAM postgraduate diploma in choral conducting teaching.
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Greg Beardsell
Conductor / Musicianship Tutor
Greg is a leading light in music education and performance. His ability to inspire people of all ages to explore new musical horizons whilst sharing his diverse range of musical skills has created new and exciting music-making opportunities, particularly for young people.
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As well as being conductor of the London Youth Chamber Choir, he is Music Director of the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland, the Peace Proms and Principal Conductor of the National Youth Training Choir. He is a guest presenter for BBC Radio 3’s “Live in Concert” and “Choir and Organ” programmes and features as a choral music expert for the BBC Proms TV broadcasts.
He has held conducting positions with the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, the Irish Youth Choir, the Ulster Youth Choir and the Royal College of Music Chamber Choir and has presented seminars on conducting and teaching strategies for organisations such as Cambridge University, the Association of Swedish Choral Conductors, Cornell University New York, and music education hubs across England.

JAMIE WRIGHT
Conductor
Jamie is a singer and conductor, trained at the Royal Academy of Music. Alongside conducting the Cambiata Boys with London Youth Choir, Jamie regularly works with The Sixteen, Britten Sinfonia, National Youth Choirs and Pimlico Musical Foundation, delivering a wide range of workshops from opera to beatboxing.
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Jamie is a selected artist with Making Music and as a soloist has performed at The Barbican, Snape Maltings, and Shakespeare's Globe, and is a chorister and regular soloist in the Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London. He regularly tours Europe as an ensemble singer including as baritone and vocal percussionist deputy with The Swingle Singers. His work for television includes vocal coaching and arranging for the BBC, and numerous film soundtracks.
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