Chris Hill
Chris’ day-job at Loughborough College, involves leading a team of Advisors who support ‘innovation in learning’ in post-16 education and training across the East Midlands.
The ‘innovation’ part is through the use of new and emerging technology and Chris has a Master’s degree in Educational Technology – although he doesn’t even own a mobile phone.
Chris met his wife Kath whilst they were both students at Hull University. Kath studied Latin, which proves useful in the pronunciation of the words in the occasional Latin piece the Choir sing. He has two grown up sons.
He has eclectic musical taste, from Bach through folk, swing and 1960’s pop to standards. His ideal job would have been as Ella Fitzgerald’s accompanist.
Why does Chris conduct the Choir? ‘It’s remarkable that a group of everyday people, many of whom cannot read music, through practice and commitment, can produce sounds that touch their listeners’ lives. There is nothing quite like a male voice choir singing very quietly and with control, or with vigour and energy, and it’s a privilege to lead this Choir’.
One of Chris’s oft-quoted remarks is, ‘I started by accident, but we get along, so I do it until the Choir can find someone better’.
Chris would be pleased to welcome you to the choir. The only conditions for joining are that you enjoy making music and are prepared to work at it. Why don’t you come along to a rehearsal and see what it’s like?
He has eclectic musical taste, from Bach through folk, swing and 1960’s pop to standards. His ideal job would have been as Ella Fitzgerald’s accompanist.
Why does Chris conduct the Choir? ‘It’s remarkable that a group of everyday people, many of whom cannot read music, through practice and commitment, can produce sounds that touch their listeners’ lives. There is nothing quite like a male voice choir singing very quietly and with control, or with vigour and energy, and it’s a privilege to lead this Choir’.
One of Chris’s oft-
Chris would be pleased to welcome you to the choir. The only conditions for joining are that you enjoy making music and are prepared to work at it. Why don’t you come along to a rehearsal and see what it’s like?
Chris Hill has been Musical Director of the Loughborough Male Voice Choir since 2007 and comes from a musical family in Wiltshire. His father founded Swindon Orpheus Choir, his mother was an organist and his brother directs Folkestone Choral Society.
Before moving to Loughborough in 2005, Chris was organist at Nexus in Bath, playing the oldest organ in any Methodist Church in the world that had been in continuous use since its installation.
He says, ‘The organ was installed in 1817 and, in best Methodist tradition, was bought second-hand from the Bath Assembly Rooms’.
Before moving to Loughborough in 2005, Chris was organist at Nexus in Bath, playing the oldest organ in any Methodist Church in the world that had been in continuous use since its installation.
He says, ‘The organ was installed in 1817 and, in best Methodist tradition, was bought second-