The Team

The Choir, a Charity, is run by a Committee of Trustees elected by Choir members plus the Conductor.  They are responsible for overseeing the finances of the Choir; selecting works for the Choir to sing; and organising and managing concerts. The Committee also selects any charities which are to benefit from a donation by the Choir.

Trustees and Officers  2024-2025

Chair:                 Toby Tattersall  chair@cantorion-llandrindod.org

Vice Chair:         Kirsty Hunter

Secretary:          Sue Ryan          secretary@cantorion-llandrindod.org

Treasurer:         Sue Ryan          treasurer@cantorion-llandrindod.org

Fundraising:      Pat Howard 

Publicity:            Lynn Jones                          

without portfolio:   

                           Jonathan Copus 

                                

Music Director:   Hilary Cox 

Other Roles

Web Admin:       Sue Ryan             admin@cantorion-llandrindod.org  

Librarian:           Lucy Cox         librarian@cantorion-llandrindod.org

Assis't Librarian Sue Ryan

Safeguarding­:    Pat Howard­

Health & Safety Andrew Cresswell

Our Music Director/Conductor is Hilary Cox

Hilary graduated with a BMus from Royal Holloway College and a PGCE from Reading. While singing with The Reading Bach Choir she formed and conducted a separate professional offshoot group, The Rebac Singers, and taught for a short while before embarking on a professional solo singing career mostly in London and the South East. 

 

Along with the standard repertoire of oratorios, passions and masses with local choral societies and many services and events, Hilary performed Purcell's King Arthur at the Brighton Festival and undertook commercial recordings with The Royal Hospital, Chelsea.  Other highlights included the first performance of Francis Grier's Embracing the Tiger in Symphony Hall, Birmingham and several performances in Brecon Cathedral, among them Haydn's Little Organ Mass and Brahms' A German Requiem.

 

Maintaining links with schools through choir training and vocal coaching,

she eventually returned to teaching full time and was for eleven years Director of Music at The Oratory Prep School in South Oxfordshire, while continuing to take occasional solo work including the part of The Angel in Elgar's Dream of Gerontius.

Hilary and her family moved to Wales in 1999 and soon after founded The Beulah Music Festival to bring music to children and children to music in the local area by means of workshops, professional concerts, community projects, outreach in schools and sponsorship.  She has long been associated with Cantorion as a soloist and more recently as deputy conductor. She is delighted to have been asked to accept the post of conductor and looks forward to working with the membership to develop repertoire and ensemble, and most of all to enjoy making music together as a team of friends

Our Accompanist is Adam Sim

 

Adam has spent most of his working life giving piano lesson, regularly preparing

students of all ages for esams with both ABRSM and Trinity College.  Alongside this,

he has accommpanied a number of choirs, the first being Ledbury Community Choir

from the late 1990s into the early 2000s.  The highlight of this time was accompanying

them at the Cheltenham Festival.  

 

Following a move with his wife Rachel, to Llandrindod Wells in 2006, he accompanied Cantorion greatly enjoying working alongside David White until other work commitments took over, including being both Musicial Director and Accompanist with Dolau Mixtures

and presenting the "Live at the The Canopy" music events in Rock Park.  Adam found himself returning to Cantorion in 2022 at an especially challenging time as it recovered

not only from many losses and the difficulties of recovering in so many ways from Covid

but also from the unexpected retirement of their MD, Jeremy Lingard.  Hilary Cox was apponted  as the new baton holder and thus began a new collaboration - and "in-tune" music team and a responsive choir ready for the next chapter in their story.

 

Outside of work, Adam and Rachel enjoy spending time with their two sons; they belong

to festival Church Llandrindod and have voluntary support roles with Adoption UK.