Suzannah trained as a singer with Hervey Allen in London, sang with the Monteverdi Choir and The Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields and formed the female, close-harmony cabaret group, Mother’s Ruin before returning to her native Gloucestershire. She now combines running a thriving headhunting business with making damson gin, preparing feasts and making music with friends.

Beatrice lives in Gloucestershire with her partner and two dogs. She has been singing with The Oriel Singers for several years, and with several other groups across Gloucestershire. Aside from singing, Beatrice also enjoys baking cakes for special occasions, and tending to her garden, which she designed herself!

After graduating, Victoria spent ten years in London singing with The Joyful Company of Singers and working administratively for the London Sinfonietta, LSO and British Council.  Now in Gloucestershire, she is a vocal teacher in various schools and when not singing herself, can often be found drinking tea or exploring Bredon Hill.

​Debbie has lived and worked in Gloucestershire for the past 25 years. By day she teaches classroom music, piano lessons and conducts school choirs and ensembles. By night she is usually found in a choir rehearsal or watching a good TV drama! She has sung with St Cecilia Singers, Octavo and other local chamber choirs for the past 10 years.

Paul is a member of The Oriel Singers. He spent his working life translating technical Russian and editing journals and books. He is married to the beautiful Jane and has seven children and five grandchildren. How did that happen?

Iain spent his working life in London, singing with a number of chamber choirs including the Corydon Singers, Holst Singers, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Londinium and modern music specialists the New London Chamber Choir. Now happily retired to Gloucester he looks forward to singing with friends old and new in Octavo, joining local chamber choirs and reviving his playing of the recorder.

Crispin has enjoyed many years of making music in London and Gloucestershire, while serving as a Church of England priest and teaching RS, Philosophy and Ethics in Guildford and Bristol. Now retired from full-time ministry and settled in beautiful rural Herefordshire, he still dreams of owning a Bordeaux vineyard.

Ken was a choral scholar at Christ Church Oxford and sang in London with the Corydon Singers and other top chamber choirs. Now retired from his ‘day job’ peering into computerised accounting systems he is a novice beekeeper. Otherwise, he takes up every possible chance for vocal fulfilment, which from time to time includes the Oriel Singers, Cappella Singers, choral society solo work and visits to Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey.