Chairman

John Fletcher

Musical Director

Colin Marston

Deputy Musical Director & Membership Secretary

Heather Tomlinson

Publicity Secretary

Vivien McKay

Correspondence Secretary

Anne McAllister

Bursary Secretary

Rachel Carruthers

Treasurer

Diana Nicholson

Staging Manager

Jonathan Hanton

Librarian

Charles Ritchie

Colin Marston

Born in Otley, West Yorkshire, he studied music at St. John's College, Cambridge, and sang in the university choir under Sir David Willcocks. He then gained a Diploma in Education from Reading University, where he won the Education Prize. He studied organ with Keith Rhodes (Bradford Cathedral) and Douglas Fox (Great St. Mary's, Cambridge), and gained the F.R.C.O. diploma in 1964.

For eight years he was organist and Assistant Director of Music at Brighton College, singing in the Brighton Festival Chorus under Laszlo Heltay. From 1972 until 1981 he was Director of Music at Reading School and taught in the Music section of the Education Department of Reading University.

In 1981 he was appointed Head of Music at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Penrith, a position he held until 1998. A year after moving to Penrith he was appointed Organist and Choirmaster of St. Andrew's Church, and recently celebrated twenty-five years in the post. He is also chairman of Penrith Music Club.

Chairmen - Past and Present

Newly elected chairman, John Fletcher [ right], presents retiring chairman, Charles Clayton [ left] with a clock from members of the choir to thank Charles for all his hard work for the choir. In his remarks at the A.G.M. our musical director spoke of the service which Charles has given to the choir in his ten years as chairman.

'Charles has been a splendid ambassador for the choir during that time as well as doing many of the mundane and routine tasks without which the choir could not function. We owe him a tremendous debt and hope that we will see him as a member of the tenor section of the choir for many years to come.'