Our Chorus Master, Greg Hallam takes rehearsals in the absence of the Musical Director. He was educated at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and, in 2008, graduated from the Royal College of Music with a BMus(Hons) degree in singing having studied with Ashley Stafford.

Greg was a member of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain for ten years and was Baritone section leader for several courses.  He toured twice with NYC – around Australasia, Samoa and Singapore in 2003, and Eastern Europe in 2006.  He has recently been musical and pastoral assistant for the junior choirs and was Conducting Scholar for the National Youth Training Choir in the summer of 2008.

Currently, Greg is studying for a Master of Arts in Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music with generous financial support from the Derek Butler Trust and the John Taylor Memorial Trust.  In addition to weekly work with his teachers Patrick Russill and Paul Brough, Greg has had the opportunity to work with Jeremy Summerly, Ben Parry, Paul Spicer and conducted the BBC Singers in a masterclass led by David Hill. 
He teaches singing at Lady Margaret’s School in Parson’s Green. He has worked with several youth choirs as a conductor and vocal coach and was, until recently, Musical Director of The Cappella Singers of Upminster. 
2008 saw the re-establishment of the ‘Penkhull Festival’ in Stoke-on-Trent headed by Greg in his position as Artistic Director.

Greg has had the pleasure of performing with Philharmonia Voices, under Richard Hickox and Esa-Pekka Salonen, London Voices, Voces Cantabiles and the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir on their tour to a monastery in Neresheim, Germany.  Recent solo experience include the bass solos in Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Monteverdi’s Christmas Vespers and the baritone solos in Vaughan-Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Howells’ A Spotless Rose.