Programme

  • This page shows an outline summary of the programme of events. For full details please use the links for each day.
  • In addition to our plenary sessions, we’ve three strands running concurrently.
  • Our Education strand sessions are marked *Education* so you can easily pick them out if you want to follow that strand, but feel free to mix and match.
  • We aim to give delegates a free choice of sessions, but space in some rooms is limited, so you may have to be prepared to swap if the room is full.
  • Our online repertoire resources will be available to all delegates throughout the weekend and for several weeks afterwards.
  • You can also link directly to the live Google calendar (Google account required) or grab the calendar in iCal format.

Click on the day for the full timetable

Saturday | Sunday | Google Calendar | iCal

Please note that our timetable is correct at the time of going to press: we may have to make unavoidable alterations.

Outline Programme

October 17, 2026
  • 09:30 Registration, coffee and networking  Great Hall
  • 10:30 Welcome and opening plenary  Great Hall
  • 11:45 Session 1a: Breathe in, breathe out, sing! With Emily Dickens 
  • 11:45 Session 1b: The Contemporary Pop Toolkit for Choir Leaders. With Matthew Roughley 
  • 11:45 Session 1c: Using Dorico for choral composing, arranging, and publishing. With Daniel Spreadbury 
  • 12:45 Lunch, networking and exhibition  Great Hall
  • 13:30 Saturday lunch performance with children's choir Universal Voices, conductor Rebecca Berkley 
  • 14:15 Session 2a: Harmony Signing: developing musicianship, tuning and blend. With Nicholas Bannan. 
  • 14:15 Session 2b: Repertoire discovery session I: secular music for SAB and SATB choirs. With Mark Jordan. 
  • 14:15 Session 2c: Working with young singers: how to inspire, energise and develop your children’s choir. With Susan Hollingworth, Rebecca Berkley and Universal Voices. 
  • 15:15 Tea and treats, networking and exhibition  Great Hall
  • 15:45 Session 3a: Journeys in voice with James Rose 
  • 15:45 Session 3b: Repertoire discovery session II: sacred music for SAB and SATB choirs. With Nicholas Cleobury. 
  • 15:45 Session 3c: Working with young singers: conducting masterclass with Rebecca Berkley, Suzzie Vango and Universal Voices. 
  • 17:00 Session 4a: Text – Meaning – Word setting, with Nicholas Cleobury. 
  • 17:00 Session 4b: Commissioning new works for today’s choirs – and performing them. 
  • 17:00 Session 4c: Unlocking KS3: Engagement, Energy, and Empowering Young Voices with Matthew Roughley. 
  • 18:00 Exhibition time and drinks  Great Hall
  • 18:45 Dinner 
  • 20:00 Saturday evening birthday sing and cake! With John Rutter.  Great Hall
October 18, 2026
  • 09:30 Session 5a: From average to excellent, with Amy Bebbington. 
  • 09:30 Session 5b: Working with instrumentalists, with Mark Jordan. 
  • 09:30 Session 5c: Repertoire discovery session III: music for KS1 and KS2. With Suzzie Vango 
  • 10:30 Coffee, networking and exhibition  Great Hall
  • 11:00 Session 6a: Getting to the heart of the music, with Peter Broadbent. 
  • 11:00 Session 6b: Pedagogy into part singing, with Jenny Trattles. 
  • 11:00 Session 6c: Taking flight, with Sarah Tenant-Flowers and Suzzie Vango. 
  • 12:15 Final performance: Taplow Youth Choir, conductor Gillian Dibden.  Great Hall
  • 13:15 Lunch, last chance for exhibition, and farewells