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Mary Howell. I have sung with the choir for nearly 15 years, and as I am recently widowed am looking forward to joining the choir tours which are a great way of forming better friendships within the choir and visiting new places in Europe.

Shirley Lupton comes from a Yorkshire family of singers and musicians. She has lived in and around London since school, worked and sang in the City, became a potter, helps run a Young Musician Competition. Has two sons and two grandchildren. Joined SPKFC in 1970.

Ann Smart. Scots Guards widow; mother & grandmother. Tends her late husband's family "ancestral" in Hampshire where she's also the local organist (by default). Ex-Foreign Office, working particularly in Berlin during the Cold War. Published author. Operates a small London-based vocal group, for charity. Joined choir in 1979

Edna Wolfson. I live in Westminster with husband, Mark (tone deaf but very supportive!). Apart from four years working in Community Development in Kenya and Tanzania I have worked in the National Health Service (Mental Health Community Care) first as a counsellor and then a psychotherapist. I loved the work. Music -Singing in Choirs large and small has always been a vital and happy part of life from school days onwards - and the mantra is always the same - 'Watch the Conductor...(or else!)'. Joined the Choir in 2004.

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Anne Dunn. I joined the choir while nursing in London in the late 1950’s. I was house-matron at Westminster School from where I slipped out of the boarding house during prep, for the weekly rehearsals and returned in time for evening surgery! I also took part in some of the School’s concerts. Singing in the choir is an important part of my life and to have learned and performed such an exciting variety of works with Dick’s and now with Richard’s encouraging guidance has been a wonderful privilege. As well as being a recorder player, taking part in performances of the London Recorder Orchestra, I am a member of my church choir at St Matthew’s, Bayswater where we sing mostly the Prayer Book services on Sunday mornings.

Angela Lascelles is a professional investment manager, founder Director of OLIM Ltd. Lives in Central London and a churchwarden at St George’s Campden Hill. A Vice President of the National Society of Epilepsy and keen supporter of Christian Aid. Trustee of YESS, charity to support excluded young people in Camberwell. Mother of three, interests in music, tennis and skiing.

Wendy Stephens works for a small PR and Communications Company that she and two others set up in February 1993 aimed at providing support for Members of Parliament. In her spare time she works as a volunteer for the National Trust at Chartwell. A keen walker who also enjoys gardening and the arts.

Jenni Wilson runs the Business Development, Marketing and Events for a Think Tank, specialising in oil and energy industry analysis. Her father was a musicologist and writer, (wrote the first Janacek biography), gained his PhD from Vienna University, he was Director of Music at the Brno Broadcasting Corporation until 1939 when he took the last train through Europe to safety in England. Jenni has sung Alto in choirs since the age of 11! Now lives in Kingston, works at Hyde Park Corner and escapes to the Austrian Alps and the North Devon Coast. Joined choir in 1993.

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David N Hall OBE. Royal Engineers 28 years then Director, Foundation for Science & Technology 1981-2000. Active Service Korea, Cyprus & Congo. Led many desert expeditions including a major 4 month expedition to southern Sahara, and various lone camel journeys. Written on desert navigation and desert travel. Past Vice President, Hon Treasurer, and Hon Foreign Secretary RGS. Past Chairman Palestine Exploration Fund, Chairman Frederick Soddy Trust. Fishing, growing fruit, water colour painting, & village affairs. Joined choir c.1983.

Guy Nicolson sung in the choir at school and after National Service joined the wine trade which took him to Edinburgh in 1983, where he joined St Mary's Cathedral Concert Choir. On retirement in 1998 they came back to live in London , where our 4 Children and 5 (coming on 7!) grandchildren live, and he was lucky enough to be introduced to SPKFC.

Andrew Rix. Dabbler and searcher, yet to find the key to it all, who, none the less, finds great solace singing in, apart from SPKFC since 1969, the London Symphony Chorus(1976-87), Chelsea Opera Group(1994- ), Hampstead Garden Opera(1990s), Holland Park Opera (Rigoletto 1995), and many other choirs. Taught Government & Politics, European Studies and Investment at Kilburn Polytechnic for a living, after teaching in Stockholm and Wuerzburg, Germany, following History degree. Spends most of his time reading, cooking, playing tennis and bowls, probably in that order, not to mention the theatre and concerts.

Guy Stephenson. Come from a musical family, degree in chemistry but decided to follow a flying career. Started with the University Air Squadron and after RAF ‘Wings’ flew low level Nuclear Strike bombers in Germany followed by some instructing. Thereafter British Airways and Virgin ‘Jumbos’, even had a go at flying Concorde. Am now the company Flight Operations Auditor and fly Hot Air Balloons instead.