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\"Kathryn<\/a><\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce that Kathryn Ridgeway has accepted the position of Music Director with The Maidstone Singers. Having worked with Kathryn since the\u00a0beginning of this season and enjoyed a highly successful performance in the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London\u00a0under her baton,\u00a0it is clear that she is the ideal person to take the choir forward. We look forward to many successful concerts with her.<\/p>\n

Kathryn graduated with a BMus (Hons) from Sheffield University where she also trained as a violinist under the Lindsay String Quartet and Martin Milner. She pursued her playing and teaching career in the Southeast as Head of Instrumental Studies for Mid-Kent, performing with local orchestras and chamber ensembles; she later became Head of Strings at Trent College.<\/p>\n

Her ideology of making music accessible to all resulted in the inauguration of a Residential Summer Holiday Music Course for young string players in Kent, held at Repton Preparatory School in Derbyshire. She worked with the Kent County Youth Orchestra and toured Brazil, Holland and France and conducted at the Benenden Summer School.<\/p>\n

She then extended her experience and expertise to music education in schools, re-energising music departments, improving results and extra-curricular provision and making the subject engaging and successful at all levels; this excellence was recognised nationally by Chris Woodhead and Ofsted.<\/p>\n

She organised Choir Tours to destinations in Europe and wider afield including very successful tours to China and the USA. She directed choral concerts in major London venues with repertoire including The Armed Man, Mikado, Showboat, Noye\u2019s Fludde, Songs of Sactuary, Faur\u00e9 Requiem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, The Creation. <\/em>School productions were highly successful including My Fair Lady, Hairspray, We Will Rock You, Guys and Dolls, Grease, Oliver, Forbidden Planet<\/em>; she produced the first performance in the south-east of the school edition of Les Miserables.<\/em><\/p>\n

As part of Bromley High School\u2019s 125th<\/sup> Anniversary celebrations, under her direction the whole school community performed Carmina Burana<\/em> in the Royal Albert Hall with a choir of 200, an orchestra of 100, choreographed for 100 dancers.<\/p>\n

Kathryn continues to perform regularly in the Southeast and is closely involved in music in local primary schools; she is delighted and privileged to continue the inspirational work of Jeffrey Vaughan Martin with The Maidstone Singers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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