 Jason Pimblett - Musical Director
Jason studied voice and piano at the Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he won the Most Distinctive Vocal Student award two years running. He sang the title role in Britten's Albert Herring, Emperor Nero in Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, and Basilio in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. On graduating with distinction, Jason joined the chorus of Opera North, with whom he sang for three seasons, before touring with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for a further three years. He then sang in Germany for the Krefeld and Monchengladbach City Opera Houses for two seasons. On returning to the UK he taught singing at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in the Barbican, and has since taught throughout the UK. He appeared in the US premiere of Ivor Novello's The Dancing Years, and was then invited to give a series of master classes at the University of South Carolina.
Jason is now resident in Brighton and teaches singing privately.
 Peter Lawson - Deputy Musical Director
Peter studied at the Guildhall School of Music, where he twice won the Royal Philharmonic Society's Young Composers' Prize. He graduated with a First Class degree and the Dove Memorial Prize for best student, and later returned to the Guildhall to teach piano and composition.
He has had frequent broadcasts and recorded a number of CDs as pianist and accompanist. As a composer, he has currently had 44 compositions, orchestrations and arrangements published, the first at the age of nineteen; and his music has been performed everywhere from Kazakhstan to the Philippines and beyond!
Peter is also a keen amateur botanist, and continues to work on his extraordinary series of musical portraits of the Orchid family.
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