Hannah Davey (Lead singer for Moving Music)
Hannah’s performances take her across the UK and Europe performing song recitals, oratorio, and orchestral concerts. Notable solo engagements include a UK tour of Bach with Sir James Galway, a production of The Merchant of Venice at the Royal Shakespeare Company, regular performances with the Orchestra of St John’s including the ‘My Music’ series at Wigmore Hall, London, a song recital tour of Burgundy, France, and oratorio performances at many venues including St John’s Smith Square and King’s Place, London, Dorchester Abbey, Malmesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury Abbey, and her home town of Cheltenham. Recordings include Mozart Requiem with Orchestra of St John’s and William Hayes ‘The Fall of Jericho’ with the Corelli Ensemble. Hannah enjoys performing chamber music and is the soprano in the Tivoli Trio alongside clarinet and piano. The Tivoli Trio particularly perform and commission works by women and will shortly be making a recording. Complementing her classical singing, Hannah is the vocalist with the Derek Paravicini Quartet, a vibrant jazz group who create their own arrangements of classic songbook tunes. They have appeared a number of times performing live on BBC radio 3 and have recorded a debut album with Absolute Records. Hannah also guests with small ensembles and pianists at jazz clubs around the UK. Alongside her performances and teaching, Hannah leads vocal masterclasses and works with the charities Music for Autism and Moving Music which provides high calibre performance for children and adults with special needs and those living with dementia. Hannah studied with Christine Cairns at Birmingham Conservatoire where she gained a first class honours degree and won prizes including the St Claire Barfield Prize for Operatic Distinction and the Bromsgrove International Young Musician’s Platform.
Judith Sheridan.
Judith is a professional classical singer with considerable experience as a teacher, choral conductor and workshop leader. She has taught at Queen’s University, Belfast, Exeter University and at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She currently conducts the Halton Military Wives Choir, the church choir of St Mary the Virgin, Ivingho, Beacon Community Choir and Sing Wilstone. She also conducts Sabrinensis, a chamber choir based in Gloucestershire with whom she has appeared at the Three Choirs Festival. She continues to appear as a performer as part of the Ridgeway Ensemble based in Buckinghamshire.
Her interest in singing in a therapeutic context grew from teaching the voice module on the post-graduate Music Therapy course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In this she explored with the students the use of voice in non verbal communication, the connections between voice and emotion and the significance of sound generated vibration in rehabilitation and a range of therapies.
In 2020/2021 she completed the Sing To Beat Parkinsons training and was subsequently chosen for the STBP mentoring scheme. Judith is continuing the work started by Peter Hunt leading Singing for Wellbeing and STBP sessions in Banbury. In partnership with Sound Resource she is looking to build and develop awareness of the demonstrable value of singing for a range of medical conditions.
Peter Hunt
Peter works as a freelance conductor, teacher and choir trainer, building an independent career after leaving Berkshire Maestros in August, where he was Deputy Head. Peter now has a small teaching practice, helping adults to find and make the best of their voices and also runs a very successful Singing for Wellbeing group in Banbury for participants experiencing dementia, COPD and those who benefit from meeting regularly to sing. This began as a NHS service funded through Social Prescribing, offering arts activities to support medication. Peter regularly leads workshops and training at conferences and for music and education organisations, and conduct singers of all ages.