Who's Who in the BBC Symphony Chorus |
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 Stephen Jackson - Director
Stephen Jackson has been Director of the BBC Symphony Chorus since 1989, and in that time has prepared a huge repertoire for more than 30 conductors. He himself has also conducted many concerts, CDs and studio recordings, both with the BBC Orchestras and a cappella. He works as conductor, choral trainer and adjudicator throughout Europe and the USA. Stephen also conducts the Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir and the Cheltenham Bach Choir, and works regularly with the BBC Singers. |
 Deborah Miles-Johnson - Vocal Coach
Deborah Miles-Johnson has been the BBC Symphony Chorus's Vocal Coach since 1995. A large part of her work is done in individual half hour coaching sessions with members of the Chorus but she also takes rehearsals and workshops, works alongside Stephen Jackson preparing the Chorus in the more vocally demanding repertoire, and has prepared the chorus for Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and Ravel's Daphis et Chloe.
In addition to her work with choirs Deborah is in demand as a mezzo-soprano soloist in opera, oratorio and contemporary repertoire and performed Copland's In the Beginning with the Chorus at the recent Cage weekend at the Barbican. She has sung for Andrew Parrott, Simon Rattle, Andrew Davis and Tadaaki Otaka in a range of music from baroque, classical and romantic repertoire to world premieres such as Laments by Brian Elias.
Appearing regularly at all the main London venues, Deborah Miles-Johnson has also sung at the Cheltenham, York and Almeida Festivals and at Vienna's Konzerthaus and in 2000 she performed Bach's St Matthew Passion with the English Concert in Spain, Istanbul, Salzburg and Japan. Commerical recordings include Peter Maxwell Davies' Resurrection, Arvo Pärt's Stabat Mater and, with the BBC Symphony Chorus and Stephen Jackson, Carl Rütti's Magnificat and Alpha et Omega which was given its world premiere at the BBC Proms.
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 Paul Webster - Accompanist
Paul Webster joined the BBC Symphony Chorus as Accompanist in December 1998. Since studying at Cambridge and the GSMD he has developed a wide-ranging career as a conductor, composer, arranger, composition teacher and writer on music.
He has a particular interest in 20th century repertoire, conducting his own group, the Orpheus Ensemble, at the Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square and on BBC Radio 3, and conducting a new production of Peter Maxwell Davies's The Martyrdom of St Magnus for Opera Factory/London Sinfonietta. He has appeared at the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music and Glasgow's Musica Nova, and is a founder member and musical director of the contemporary music ensemble NOMOS.
He has acted as repetiteur at the Bastille Opera in Paris and Glyndebourne Festival Opera and more recently assisted Rostropovich in preparing a number of new concertos commisioned for the Russian cellist. He works regularly as coach and accompanist with students, with established singers such as Willard White, with voice teachers Laura Sarti and Rita Godfrey, and teaches at Morley College. Recently he has extended his interests by devising a series of semi-staged cabaret recitals for female voice and piano, including An Actor's Life and Love of Food: A Banquet of Song in Seven Courses .
BBC Symphony Chorus members |
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