Over the years, the Society has enjoyed working with numerous gifted Music Directors. Records for the Society’s early years are largely missing; information from the 1950s on is more comprehensive.
F S Stammers: | during 1930s |
Montague Wheeler: | 1951-1955 |
Michael Lane: | 1957 – 1967; then made President |
Stanford Robinson: | 1960 |
Adrian Boult: | 1961 |
Cecil Cope: | 1962 |
Myer Friedman: | 1962, 1967 |
Nancy Plummer: | 1964 |
Dr Paul Steinitz: | 1965, 1966, 1968 |
Margaret Darwall-Smith: | 1965 – 1977, 1982 |
Cecil Coram: | 1968 – 1970 |
Ronald Sampson: | 1969 |
Hervey Alan: | 1970 |
Peter Gellhorn: | 1971 |
Anthony Hopkins: | 1972 |
Yuval Zaliouk: | 1973 |
Brian Richards: | 1977 – 1981 |
Leone Ratner: | 1981 |
Gordon Lawson: | 1982 – 1988, 1991, 1994 – 1997 |
Graham Jones: | 1988 |
Charles Spanner: | 1988 – 1990 |
Mavis (Paddy) Lister: | 1990 – 1994 |
Michael Downes: | 1996 |
John Underhill: | 1997 – 2008 |
Sion Parry: | 2008 – 2014 |
Anna Tabor: | 2014 – 2017 |
Colin Hughes: | 2018 – 2023 |
Veronica Fewkes (Interim) | 2023 |