Jenny Saunders
Teacher of Singing
Jenny trained at the Royal Academy of Music as a scholarship pupil and during this time won many prizes including The Great Grimsby International Singers Competition.
Since graduating, Jenny has worked as a soloist with many distinguished conductors and orchestras, including Sir David Willcocks and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lazslo Heltay and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Ian Watson and the Mozart Festival Orchestra in the National Tour of Four Seasons by Candlelight. Her international singing career has taken her around the world including to Japan, Norway, Brazil, America and France amongst many other countries.
Alongside Jenny’s performance work, she is an experienced singing teacher. She teaches all styles including Pop, Musical Theatre and Classical Singing, from beginner to Diploma. She has also worked as an examiner for the London College of Music.
Tom Williams
Teacher of Singing
A former choral scholar of King’s College in Cambridge, Tom now enjoys a freelance career as a professional countertenor, conductor and singing teacher.
He has been a core member of the internationally-acclaimed new music vocal ensemble EXAUDI since 2003 and a regular choirman of the Temple Church for over twenty years. He sang for many years in Stephen Layton’s choir Polyphony and has also performed with The Choir of the Enlightenment, The Tallis Scholars and The Hanover Band.
He has directed Leicestershire Chorale, a choir of serious amateur and semi-professional singers since 2000 and has also directed the Bardi Symphony Orchestra and the Leicestershire Camerata. He teaches singing at several Independent schools and for some years worked as a vocal coach for the Royal Society of Church Music.
As a soloist he has appeared in premier venues both internationally and within the UK, also broadcasting for radio, television and on the internet. He has sung as a soloist at concerts and religious services given in honour of both President Mikhail Gorbachev and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and has featured on recordings for both the Signum and Métier labels, singing the music of Henry Purcell and Christopher Fox respectively.