Our Conductor

Tim Johnson, Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College took over as Conductor of WECS in September 2011. Tim was Director of Music at Westminster School and regularly directed their choir and orchestra in venues such as St John’s Smith Square and Westminster Abbey. Tim read Music at Cambridge where he was an Organ Scholar and Co-Principal Cellist in the University Orchestra. In 1995, Tim was appointed Assistant Director of Music and Head of Strings at Wellington School. Five years later he became Director of Music at Eltham College. A highlight during Tim’s period at Eltham was preparing the trebles for a live Radio 3 broadcast of Mahler Symphony No. 8 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Our Accompanist

John Halsey is Organist & Choirmaster of Windsor Parish Church, performs regularly as an organist, cellist, choral conductor and is Regional Consultant for Berkshire for the Royal College of Organists. John was for six years Head of Music at Langley Hall Primary Academy, a free school in Slough, which became perhaps the most musical state primary in the country as measured by the number of children passing graded music exams each year. As a church musician, John has been a Gentleman of HM Chapels Royal, St James's Palace; Director of Music at St Luke's, Chelsea; Organist of the Anglican Chaplaincy in Strasbourg, France; and, during an interregnum, acting Organist of Wangaratta Cathedral, Australia. 

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