Workshop Leaders

Resources

The following WGMA members are some of the experienced leaders who are available to lead workshops around the country.

Ken Baddley: BEDFORDSHIRE.

  • Contact email
  • Experience: Singing and playing West Gallery music since 1992.
  • Special Interests: Main interest is non-conformist music of the West Gallery period.
  • Activities Offered: Workshop linked to either services or concerts; lectures; concerts with Bedford Gallery Quire.
  • Fees/Expenses: Workshops and services are offered on an expenses only basis. Concerts with Bedford Gallery Quire are charged on a sliding scale, depending on nature of event.
  • Other Information: Musical Director of Bedford Gallery Quire.

Mike Bailey: HAMPSHIRE

  • Contact email
  • Experience: Research and performance since 1977
  • Special Interests: Wide
  • Activities Offered: Workshops, often leading to services; lectures; editing
  • Fees/Expenses: Music at cost, reasonable travel expenses, no fee
  • Other Information: Leads ‘The Madding Crowd’

Sally Drage: CHESHIRE

  • Contact: email
  • Experience: Research and performance since 1990, general experience of choirs
  • Special Interests: Northern / Midlands music; non-conformist / Anglican practice
  • Activities Offered: Lectures; workshops; services
  • Fees/Expenses: £0 upwards – very negotiable
  • Other Information: Professional musician, specially interested in performance practice

Paul Gailiunas: NEWCASTLE, NORTHUMBERLAND

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  • Experience: Varied singing styles, mainly in choirs; leading WG and male voice choirs;
  • research, generally focused on a specific location, or manuscript.
  • Special Interest: Links between US and UK.
  • Activities offered: Workshops.
  • Fees/Expenses: Expenses if possible.
  • Other information: Leads ‘Joyful Noise’.

Chris Gardner: STOCKSFIELD, NORTHUMBERLAND

  • Contact email
  • Experience: Performance and research
  • Special Interests: ‘Georgian Psalmody’ aspect of West Gallery music; northern music
  • Activities Offered: Workshops, services
  • Fees/Expenses: Expenses, hospitality appreciated if needed
  • Other Information: Long experience of conventional church / cathedral music

Edmund Gooch: DERBYSHIRE

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  • Experience: Research since 1999, leading local workshops, conducting
  • Special Interests: Midlands and North West West Gallery music, composers – Fawcett, Leach etc
  • Activities Offered: Workshops, with or without subsequent services or concerts
  • Fees/Expenses: Expenses – negotiable
  • Other Information: Light 18th century instrumental music associated with psalmody repertoire

Paul Guppy: LANCASTER, LANCASHIRE

  • Contact email
  • Experience: Research and performance since 1992
  • Special Interests: Music from North West England
  • Activities Offered: Workshops
  • Fees/Expenses: Expenses and negotiable fee
  • Other Information: Leads ‘Gladly Solemn Sound’

Chris Gutteridge: NORFOLK.

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  • Experience: WGMA member since 1998
  • Special Interests: Norfolk music
  • Activities Offered: Workshops
  • Fees/Expenses: Negotiable

Edwin and Sheila Macadam offer individual or combined workshops:
Edwin Macadam: OXFORDSHIRE

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  • Experience: Research and performance since 1992
  • Special Interests: Music from Central England and Sussex
  • Activities Offered: Workshops, services, community events
  • Fees/Expenses: Expenses only, music provided at cost, negotiable fees where Immanuel’s Ground are included
  • Other Information: leads ‘Immanuel’s Ground’ (Warwick), co-founder ‘Sussex Harmony’. Editorial revision and setting of WGMA psalter, Praise & Glory, Oxford, 2000

Sheila Macadam: OXFORDSHIRE

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  • Experience: Research, performance and recordings since 1993
  • Special Interests: Exchange of English and American psalmody
  • Activities Offered: Illustrated lectures and workshops
  • Fees/Expenses: Expenses only, music provided at cost
  • Other Information: Extensive experience of New England psalmody. Editorial revision and biographical research for WGMA psalter, Praise & Glory, Oxford, 2000

Francis Roads: LONDON

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  • Experience: Research and performance since 1995
  • Special Interests: Manx music; editing; West Gallery Music for non-specialist choirs
  • Activities Offered: Lectures, workshops, services, concerts
  • Fees/Expenses: Expenses, fee where appropriate
  • Other Information: Leads ‘London Gallery Quire’

Jean Seymour: BURY, LANCASHIRE

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  • Experience: Research and performance since 1990
  • Special Interests: Baptist chapel music in ‘Larks of Dean’ manuscript collection, Rossendale, Lancs
  • Activities Offered: Participatory workshops on music from ‘Larks of Dean’ collection; lecture recitals with Larks of Dean Quire
  • Fees/Expenses: Reasonable out of pocket expenses; music provided at cost.
  • Fee: Negotiable if Larks of Dean Quire involved.
  • Other Information: Leads ‘Larks of Dean Quire’

Gillian Warson: OXFORDSHIRE

  • Contact email
  • Experience: Researching, singing, playing and directing West Gallery music since 1992.
  • Special Interests: Main interest is both Non-conformist and Anglican music of the period as well as related secular music. I have a particular interest in the contribution of women and children.
  • Activities Offered: Workshop linked to either services or concerts; lectures; concerts with Immanuel’s Ground Quire.
  • Fees/Expenses: Workshops and services are offered based on a negotiable fee and expenses. Concerts with Immanuel’s Ground Quire are charged on a sliding scale, depending on nature of event.
  • Other Information: Musical Director of Immanuel’s Ground Quire and other scratch groups. Also Tenants of the Earth – a group comprising the musicians of IGQ.