Category: Presenter Biography

Barry is Marketing Director for Making Music, the UK’s membership organisation for leisure-time music, with around 4,000 groups representing around 228,000 music makers across the UK. Making Music is dedicated to empowering everyone, whatever their background or experience, to come together in their community to make or present music. 

Barry is a guitarist, singer and composer who regularly performs jazz and classical music. He sings with the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields and was a choral scholar at Guildford Cathedral while studying for his music degree at the University of Surrey.

Jeremy Haneman is a conductor and musical director who specialises in choral and operatic repertoire. He is the Director of Together Productions, a not for profit that produces ground-breaking work using music and the arts to inspire social change. He works every year with hundreds of singers who are refugees, torture survivors and people with mental health challenges. Jeremy Haneman was the Community Chorus Director for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden 2011-2020 and is the Artistic Director of Thames Opera Company. He has conducted concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, all the Royal Festival Hall venues, the Royal Opera House, and around the world.

As well as musical director for the prize-winning Taylor Wessing and Linklaters choirs, he is the co-founder and conductor of the Mixed Up Chorus, London Phoenix Choir and he has led many other choirs including the National Symphony Chorus of Ireland, Morley College Choir and Cambridge University Chamber Choir. Jeremy has also been the musical director for One Day One Choir, a global annual movement for World Peace Day that involves over a million singers from all around the world, and he has been visiting Professor of choral conducting at the Guildhall School of Music working with vocal and composition students. Jeremy did the inaugural Master of Music in choral conducting at the University of Cambridge. He is a Practitioner Council member of abcd, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and Trustee of the London Gay Men’s Chorus.

https://jeremyhaneman.com

https://singingforourminds.co.uk/

https://www.togetherproductions.co.uk/

Susan is a choral director and music educator. She studied at The Royal Northern College of Music. In 1990 she was awarded a Churchill fellowship for her work with choirs. In 2008, she won The BBC Choir of the Year with The Scunthorpe Cooperative Junior Choir. In 2013 she received a Royal Philharmonic Award for co-directing Cycle Song for the Cultural Olympiad which was an opera performed by 1500 participants.

She is Conductor Emeritus of the  Sine Nomine International Touring and conducts the Lydian Choir and Scunthorpe Choral Society. She has conducted choirs at The Presteigne Contemporary Music Festival, the Three Choirs Festival, The Albert Hall, The Sydney Olympics, Lincoln Cathedral and various festivals abroad. She is in demand as a conductor trainer, workshop leader and choir trainer. Susan is a vice-president of abcd and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bishop Grosseteste for her work in music education. In 2019 she was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to music.