Area Representatives

Eugene Seow is a Singaporean musician, educator, and researcher active internationally in performance, higher education, and curriculum development. He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University, and a Professorial Fellow and Professor of Contemporary Music at European-American University. He lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore Raffles Music College, and is a co-curricular teacher at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. His research and publications focus on jazz-inspired education, ensemble fluency, and curriculum innovation, with work appearing in publications such as Jazz Education in Research and Practice, Music Education Research, Music in Africa, and the RSA online. He is an External Examiner and Advisory Board Member with the Virtual University of Pakistan, and an Examiner for the St. Cecilia School of Music and the Australian Society of Musicology and Composition. As a multi-instrumentalist, Eugene is the first musician known to hold rhythm section fellowships on percussion, bass, and piano and has collaborated with Terence Blanchard and Cécile McLorin Salvant, appearing at Lincoln Center, the Esplanade, and major festivals worldwide.

Ellie grew up singing in the choir at St Peter’s Church, Weston Favell since the age of 11, and was always keen to watch the organist play.

She took up her first position as a Church Organist at the age of 16, and has worked in church music for a whole decade. Most of her choral leadership has been with smaller church choirs with a majority of “non-musicians” but has always been keen to promote a good welcoming, supportive, team-working ethic, which makes learning music challenging yet rewarding. Ellie is currently the Director of Music at St Mary’s Church, Orlingbury in Northampton.

Ellie says that she is passionate about The Guild of Musicians and Singers, because it is recognises that she, like many others are “Academically challenged” and this doesn’t matter!

“The Guild recognises me for who I am, what I do, and what I have done in music, and I am keen to promote this with others!” 

Lee Wallace is a keen amateur singer based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, who had a close association with the late Honorary Fellow of the Guild, James Holt, who gave him his start in singing at the relatively late age of 23. His wide vocal range has allowed him to sing in a variety of musical styles. In church music he has sung soprano and alto at James Holt’s own Church St Mary’s Beeston, Leeds and the Church of the Venerable Bede, Bramley and for the last 22 years in The Heritage Singers (taking Anglican Church Music into Churches that have lost their choirs) conducted by Tim Knight, Composer and Conductor.  Lee currently sings Bass in Tim Knight’s Concert Choir, Masterworks Chorale, which is conducting a European tour over five years, singing choral works in the building for which they were written. In recent years they have sung in New York, Paris, Venice and this year will be visiting Lichtenstein. 

He also sings as a first tenor with Leeds Male Voice Choir and alto in one of the last remaining Glee Societies, Fulneck Glee Society.  He has also sang for a season in Leeds Baroque Choir as a counter-tenor conducted by Peter Holman. 

Jonathan Buchan is a Freelance Organist and Singer based in Glasgow and is currently Director of Music at Kings Park Church of Scotland. He has been involved in Church music since the early 1990s and loves his job and the variety involved within it. He is also Registrar for the Society of Crematorium Organists and Administrator for the Scottish Historic Organ Trust. His love of music also allows him to sing at Burns Suppers and Adjudicate at the Gaelic Mods in Glasgow.

Peter Thompson combines an eclectic career as cleric and musician. He has been Assistant Organist of Armagh Cathedral since 2010, and is a regular recitalist across Ireland. He has edited a hymnal, and authored a Companion, as well as a three volume series of responsorial psalms. His most recent publication is “A treasure in clay jars: rediscovering the spirituality of the Canticles” has just been published by Church of Ireland publishing. He studied music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Queens University of Belfast and more recently at the University of Bangor (Wales) where he was awarded an MMus in research and performance, focusing on the organ works of Herbert Howells. As a cleric he is Archdeacon of Armagh, and rector of three rural parishes in mid Ulster. 

Born in Dublin in 1957, Fr Brian was interested in good music from an early age. His piano teacher was R J Marino LLCM who, as a chorister in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, sang at the 1937 Coronation. From 1977 to 1982, he was one of the three countertenors in the Palestrina Choir in Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral. He was fortunate to have 2 very fine organ teachers: John Dexter FRCO and later, Geraint Bowen FRCO, the current DoM at Hereford Cathedral.

From 1982 to 1984, he was assistant organist at Rathgar RC Church and Acting Organist and Choirmaster at Rathmines RC Church, both on the south side of Dublin. In 1984, he began training for the ordained ministry in the Carmelite tradition. After making Solemn Profession in 1988, he was appointed to the staff of Terenure College in Dublin where he taught French, Music and Religious Education. 

Ordination to the diaconate and to the priesthood took place in the chapel of Terenure College in 1989 and 1990 respectively. Over the course of the past 35 years, Fr Brian has worked in education, parish ministry and has extensive experience as a retreat director and preacher of parish missions. Organ playing has always been very much at the centre of his life and work, and he continues to be very active as a church musician, both playing and directing choirs. 

He was greatly honoured in 2017 to be elected to the Chapter of the National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland as an Ecumenical Canon. This appointment was for a 5 year period, but he was re-elected in 2022 and his term will expire at his seventieth birthday. He was further honoured by the Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University with the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 2021. He is a graduate of University College, Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, and the Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Dublin. He holds the Fellowship Diploma of the Victoria College of Music along with several honorary music diplomas. He is currently Prior of Terenure College, Dublin, which is a secondary school for boys aged 12 to 18 with a roll of 800 students. Whilst Prior of the Carmelite Church, Whitefriar Street, Dublin (2012 – 2018), he initiated an annual organ recital series which continues to thrive. 

William Maddox is a performance graduate of Queen's University, Trinity College of Music, and the Central Academy of Music, London. Mr. Maddox has served churches in Picton, Belleville and Kingston, and began his duties as Yorkminster Park Baptist Church's fourth Director of Music in 1996.

Active as a recitalist, he has been heard in recital in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil, as well as on the CBC. Mr. Maddox has also served as Instructor of Organ in the School of Music at Queen's University at Kingston, where his students were recipients of numerous University and national scholarships and awards.

A native of Haverhill, Massachusetts, Christopher has been involved in Church music ministry for 32 years. Having served in a number of parishes on Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Mr. Maynard at present is the Director of Music Ministries at Saint Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Milford, New Hampshire and Organist/Cantor at Saint Kathryn Parish, Hudson NH. Mr. Maynard is proud to hold a number of Fellowships from learned societies for musicians in Canada and the United Kingdom. As of recent, Mr. Maynard passed his Licentiate Exams in Choral Conducting from Victoria College of Music and Drama and Fellowship Exams in Church Organ Performance, Choral Direction and Chorister from The Three Counties School of Music. Also, Mr. Maynard was made Associate Fellow of the National College of Music, London and Fellow of the National Federation of Church Musicians which is directly associated with the College. Mr. Maynard also holds the Office of Master for the Fraternity of Saint Cecilia and is a founding member of the Fraternity.

Principal Keyboard of Hong Kong Sinfonietta since 2011, Alan Chu is one of the most versatile and sought-after pianists in Hong Kong, performing extensively as soloist, collaborative artist and orchestral musician both locally and abroad to critical acclaim. He is also an experienced university lecturer and administrator serving as the senior lecturer cum music programme leader at The Open University of Hong Kong and co-currently on the part-time/adjunct faculty of The Chinese University of HK, HK Baptist University, The Education University of HK and HKU SPACE. A prize winner at the Steinway & Sons International Youth Piano Competition and Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition, he graduated from Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London with Master of Music and Bachelor of Music (first-class honours) respectively, and studied at the Cologne University of Music in Germany under an Erasmus scholarship. He holds various advisory and fiduciary roles (HK Arts Development Council, HKS Musicians’ Union, HK Society for Art and Charity, etc.) and is a regular juror of many international/national music competitions. He was conferred Associateship (ARAM) by his alma mater in 2017 and was recently elected a Fellow of The Guild of Musicians and Singers.

William Clark studied singing, piano and organ in Australia and conducting and improvisation in the UK. He was Director of Music at The Scots College Sydney for 34 years where he established a thriving music school with state-of-the-art facilities. He is now a freelance music educator, lecturer, organist and conductor. He is organist and Director of Music at St Mark’s Church, Darling Point. William is a well known adjudicator and regularly assesses performances for schools and eisteddfodau.

William is a former president, vice-president and council member of the Music Teachers’ Association, as well as a former president of the Royal School of Church Music (New South Wales) and Head of Music in the Association of Independent Schools in New South Wales. In addition to his academic accomplishments he has also received numerous chivalric honours.