Charles brings a lifetime of experience from his career as a Global Communications and Marketing professional having worked for firms including Credit Suisse, HSBC, Centrica and Shell. But he also understands the joy of choral singing and the many advantages that a musical education brings having been a choral scholar at St John’s Cambridge and a professional opera singer at the Vienna Staatsoper and Glyndebourne before changing to a career in business.

Kate enjoys a busy career as a professional singer specialising in early music. While a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, she co-founded Stile Antico – an unconducted vocal ensemble, specialising in sixteenth-century repertoire. With the group, she has performed on five continents (just Africa and Antarctica to go) and recorded fourteen discs for Harmonia Mundi as well as three for Decca. Stile Antico’s discs have received every major European classical award and been nominated three times at the GRAMMY awards.

After a music degree and organ scholarship at Leeds, and a career in arts marketing at organisations including the Aldeburgh Festival, Cambridge Arts Theatre and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Kieran has spent the last 20 years working in communications technology. He spends as much time as possible singing, as an extra / dep at Ely Cathedral and for other projects around the country, and plays the organ in his local church. He is an experienced charity trustee having caught the committee bug from his parents at an early age, and also tries to attend as many concerts and operas as he can.

Alexander is proud to be a Trustee of an organisation for which he has worked for over twenty years. He enjoys a life as a schoolmaster and is the Director of Music at Sherborne School, having held roles at Dean Close Cheltenham, Oundle School, Eastbourne College and King Edward VI Southampton. His training began as a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge, continuing at the Royal Academy of Music and Middlesex University. 

Alongside his other roles he has been a deputy lay-clerk at Gloucester and Peterborough Cathedrals as well as Organ Scholar at Tewkesbury Abbey and Director of Music at Christ Church Southgate and St Mary’s Harrow-on-the-Hill.  Alexander brings this wealth of both lived-choral experience and school-related skills to the trustee role.

Alex is currently Director of Music at The Portsmouth Grammar School. His involvement in choral music began as a chorister in his local parish church choir and he has since held positions as an organist and conductor in the UK and New Zealand, including Chichester, Ely, and Christchurch Transitional Cathedrals, where he was founding director of the Girl Chorister programme.

He is dedicated to enabling high-quality opportunities for young people to engage with the incredible experience of singing in a choir.

Nicholas is a Private Client partner at the City law firm Macfarlanes LLP, where he heads the Charity team (as well as advising individuals and trustees on tax and estate planning issues).  

Choral music has always been one of his passions. Having had the benefit of excellent choral training at school (including participating in the Choral Courses) he sang in the choir of New College Oxford as an academical clerk and continues to sing in (and occasionally direct) choirs as often as his legal career permits.

He is a keen advocate of the benefits of choral singing for young people and is therefore committed to the Rodolfus Foundation’s vision.

Professor Simone Krüger Bridge is a distinguished senior academic with extensive experience in higher education, recognized for her excellence in teaching, research and leadership. Actively involved in supporting choral music as a chorister parent and member of a Cathedral community choir, Simone brings both personal passion and professional expertise to her trusteeship, while her participatory research focuses on the social value of choral music, exploring its transformative impact on individuals and communities.

A native of Northern Ireland, Simon is a graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast, and one of the Province’s most sought-after musicians. Simon was a student of Portadown College and a member of their Board of Governors. During his school years, Simon competed in festivals throughout the UK, Ireland, and Europe, winning many competitions and accolades. Awarded two scholarships to complete his studies as a flautist and begin organ lessons with the renowned City of Belfast Organist, the late  Dr Donald Davison MBE FRCO.

While studying A Levels, Simon was appointed Director of Music of St Polycarp’s  Church, Belfast. As an undergraduate student, Simon specialised in sacred choral music and piano, taught by concert pianist Dr Cathal Breslin, and was a first-study organist. His long tenure as Director of Music of St Polycarp’s Choir has seen him transform it into one of the largest Parish Choirs in Ireland. The Parish regularly hosts concerts, participates in broadcasts, creates recordings, and tours through the United  Kingdom and Ireland in such historic surroundings as Westminster Abbey,  Cambridge Colleges, and St Paul’s Cathedral.

Simon is a full-time teacher in Belfast’s only Music Specialist School, St Malachy’s  College. He is a former Artistic Director of Renaissance, and was a member of the semi-professional chamber choir, The Priory Singers, founded by the late Dr Harry  Grindle MBE. He currently serves as a board member of the Independent Society of  Musicians and is honoured to be appointed to the board of The Rudolfus Choral  Foundation.

For services to the City of Belfast and the community, Simon was honoured with a  Medal of the Order of the British Empire at the age of twenty-nine. He has received many awards from the Royal Family, including attending a Coronation Garden Party at Buckingham Palace and being a guest of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle in recognition of musicians working in the UK.

Laura is a secondary school music teacher, professional classical singer, blogger and poet. A choral course alumna, Laura now sings with Tenebrae, Tenebrae Consort, The Eric Whitacre Singers, The Monteverdi Choir, Polyphony, Alamire, Solomon’s Knot and The Cardinall’s Musick as well as regular session singing, appearing on many film soundtracks as part of London Voices. She also enjoys performing contemporary music, recently singing Stockhausen’s Stimmung alongside Ben Parry in London Voices.

Hope Pugh is a Mezzo Soprano and Educator from the West Midlands. Hope studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, earning a degree in Vocal Performance that laid the foundation for a vibrant and varied career in music.

Hope currently works as an Alto Lay-clerk at St. Philip’s Cathedral in Birmingham, Choral Director for the National Schools Singing Programme, a freelance musician working with many wonderful choirs and orchestras and is a Singing Teacher for a Choral Chorister project in the Handsworth (an inner-city area of Birmingham with the largest proportion of its population living in the 10% most deprived areas of England). Hope believes in the transformative power of music to foster cultural participation everywhere. Hope is passionate about the profound impact of musical education, believing it has the power to improve life chances for young people and enrich the broader community.

George Arthur Richford is Professor of Music at the Royal Marines School of Music. He comes from a working-class, state educated background and is committed to access for all in choral music. He is a multi-award winning composer and conductor and his work is regularly performed and broadcast around the world. He has held positions at Durham and Southampton University, Newcastle and Salisbury Cathedrals and is a deputy director at Great St Bart’s in the city of London.

Having been a keen singer while at school, Joe combined his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in law with choral scholarships at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and The Queen’s College, Oxford. Joe is now a barrister at Wilberforce Chambers in London, where his practice focuses on business, property and trusts disputes. He continues to sing regularly, in particular with the choir of St Mark’s Regent’s Park and the Lacock Scholars.

Megan combines a career in the civil service with singing and playing the harp professionally. She attended Chetham’s School of Music and was one of the first girl choristers to join Manchester Cathedral Choir. An alumnus of the Rodolfus choir, she now performs regularly with the North-West based Kantos Chamber Choir and deputises at Manchester and Blackburn Cathedrals.

Megan has a wealth of leadership expertise and experience, having held roles in analysis, strategy and transformation, and HR. Most recently, she has developed and led high-performing teams, supporting others to achieve their full potential.

Edward Gardner is a conductor of international renown. He is Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he has held since October 2015. Ed attended choral courses in the 1990s and sang with the Rodolfus Choir.

Sally Dunkley Sally’s long career as professional consort singer has run hand-in-hand with her interest in 16th-century vocal music as practical scholar. She took part in the Sixteen’s very first concert, and continues to appear with the group, exploring a wide range of music old and new. She also sings with the ensemble Magnificat, with the women’s group Musica Secreta, and in times past contributed to more than 1000 concerts and many recordings with the Tallis Scholars.

She is often busy behind the scenes as editor and programme consultant, and is increasingly engaged in sharing her experience through workshops and summer schools.

Jenny Watson CBE Jenny joined her borough youth choir, in Essex where she grew up, at the age of 14, and later joined the National Youth Choir, eventually becoming a member of the London Philharmonic Choir which she’s now sung with for almost 40 years.

In her working life, Jenny is a board member and consultant. Her current portfolio includes roles as chair of GAMSTOP, the House of St Barnabas, and Mossbourne Parkside Academy and she is a former Chair of the Electoral Commission and of the Equal Opportunities Commission. She is passionate about young people from all kinds of backgrounds having the opportunity to sing choral music to the highest standards, whether or not they choose to pursue it as a career.