president: Laszlo Heltay; patrons: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CBE, Jonathan Dove;
musical director: Peter Owens


Member profiles

Mary Pearce

Voice:  Alto

Nationality: British

Occupation: Linguistic consultant working for a charity in Africa. I've also been involved in Bible translation and Maths teaching.

Home: 
Chad/Hampstead Garden Suburb

Where did you start singing?  Sang solos in church as a child and in the school choir, sang and played in an early music group as a teenager.

Favourite piece of choral music:  The Messiah

Favourite composer:  Bach

Favourite singer: no-one in particular – tenors or 4-part quartets

Favourite CML concert: Evensong at St Barts the Great (partly because of the setting)

Hobbies and pastimes:  playing and listening to music, cartoon drawing, Japanese puzzles, designing cross stitch, making friends with people from different cultures.

Sebastian Borger

Voice:  Bass/baritone

Nationality: German

Occupation: London correspondent for newspapers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Home: Harringey, North London

Where did you start singing?  At home with my parents and sisters

Favourite piece of choral music:  St Matthew Passion

Favourite composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Favourite singer: The Baritone Christian Gerhaher

Favourite CML concert: B-minor Mass in St James’s, Piccadilly

Hobbies and pastimes:  Playing football in Finsbury Park with my wife, two sons and lots of neighbours, both parents and children

Mary Verdult

Voice:  Alto I

Nationality: British

Occupation: Translator

Home: Brussels

Where did you start singing?  I had singing lessons when I was at school and sang twice in the (primary) school opera – my big part was Electra, Goddess of Light in "The Magic Ruby", sadly no opera parts since, though I did tour Europe with Jimmy (James) MacMillan and the catholic chaplaincy choir of Edinburgh University in 1980. Since then, I've sung in various big choirs in Germany and Switzerland, the Brussels Choral Society, and now CML.

Favourite piece of choral music:  Anything by Whitacre

Favourite composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Favourite singer: Matti Salminen

Favourite CML concert: May 2009, Latin American music

Hobbies and pastimes:  Politics, books, culture, learning new languages

Barry Creasy

Voice:  Bass

Nationality: British

Occupation: Consultant, evaluator, researcher and cultural analyst

Home: Kilburn, London

Where did you start singing?  I have sung since I was first a choirboy, aged 9, at school in York.

Favourite piece of choral music:  César Cui: Vyelichit dusha Moya Gospoda (Magnificat)

Favourite composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Favourite singer: Janet Baker for enjoyment, Mado Robin for sheer madness

Favourite CML concert: November 1998, Monteverdi 1610 Vespers

Hobbies and pastimes:  Reading, writing, visual art.





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