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<body lang=EN-US link="#FF9900" vlink="#999900" style='tab-interval:36.0pt' alink="#669933"> <div class=Section1> <p><span style='font-family:Arial'>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial'>However, if you are looking for biographies of David or Rebecca Lawrence then here they are below.  Click on either name and your e-mail programme should open up.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:val@choralconnections.com">David</a><a href="mailto:val@choralconnections.com"> Lawrence</a></span></b><span style='font-family:Arial'> is one of the UK’s most versatile young conductors.  His posts include Artistic Director of the Ulster Youth Choir, Choir Leader of the City of Birmingham Young Voices, Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, and he is a regular guest chorusmaster with the Netherlands Radio Choir.  David has particular experience in contemporary music and has prepared and conducted premieres by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bob Chilcott, Graham Fitkin, Cornelius de Bondt to name a few.  In 2005 he visits Australia on a workshop tour, and will prepare new works by Per Nørgård, James Wood and Pierre Boulez. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'>David is a well known teacher of choral conducting and works as an education consultant and project leader for a number of orchestras and organisations.  He is a National Adjudicator for the BBC Choir of the Year Competition and regularly conducts for BBC’s ‘Songs of Praise’.  David holds the Guinness Record for conducting the largest choir in the UK, and later this year will conduct CBYV for the Royal Family at a special concert in the Ballroom of Buckingham Palace. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'> </p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:white'>As a teacher, children’s song writer and animateur <a href="mailto:rebecca@lawrence-music.co.uk"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'><st2:GivenName>Rebecca</span></st2:GivenName> Lawrence</a> </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:white'>has visited many schools around the country where she has led workshops that contain a variety of songs, music, active poetry, drama, stories and mask work. Her years of experience in the classroom prior to the birth of her daughter Emily have been an invaluable asset when leading primary teacher’s INSET in schools as well as children’s vocal projects. <u1:p></u1:p></span><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:white'><st2:GivenName>Rebecca</st2:GivenName> has always enjoyed writing songs for children and in recent years has been commissioned to write many songs and cantatas for a variety of occasions.  Commissions have come from a wide variety of sources such as Boosey and Hawkes, Methodist Publishing House, schools, CBSO junior chorus, Youth in Unisong, VIVA (orchestra of the east midlands), <st1:place>Milton Keynes</st1:place> and numerous some large commissions for Dudley Performing Arts.  Her music continues to be used all over the country, often in massed choir events or local school productions.<u1:p>  </u1:p> </span><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:white'>In contrast, <st2:GivenName>Rebecca</st2:GivenName> has re-written and directed ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ for the Finchley Children’s Music Group Summer School and presented a collection of infant singing galas in Kingston as well as concerts in Derby and <st1:place>Milton Keynes</st1:place> . </span><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:white'>Rebecca has a great zest for life and her enthusiasm for her work is obvious.  Her main aim is to generate a genuine and life long love for music and drama in both children and teachers just as her own music teacher at primary school did for her. </span><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <u1:p></div>  </body>