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JOHN COTTERILL was appointed Musical Director of Great Missenden Choral Society in September 1995. He was born in Hertfordshire, but later moved to Surrey where at Farnham he founded the Waverley Singers and the Waverley Orchestra, both of which he conducted until 1981. From 1965 to 1981 he was also conductor of the RAE Symphony Orchestra at Farnborough. He now lives in Maidenhead, Berkshire, where he was Conductor and Music Director of Maidenhead Chamber Choir from 1983 to 2001, and where he is now conductor of the Norden Farm Festival Chorus and Director of Music at St. Luke’s church. He has also conducted the Runnymede Festival Chorus and Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra. His early tuition in conducting came from Alan Fluck, Meredith Davies, Myers Foggin, Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Charles Groves. At various times he has directed the Farnham Wind Ensemble, the Haslemere Choir and Orchestra, the Woking Choral Society and the Grove Choral Society, Bournemouth. He has been Vice Chairman of Tilford Bach Society and is a past President of Maidenhead Music Society, and a past Chairman of the Southern Region Committee of the Association of British Choral Directors. On 1st October 2000, John brought together, and conducted, under the title New Century Chorus, various choirs with whom he has been and is associated, for a special performance in the Royal Albert Hall of Elgar's 'The Dream of Gerontius', to mark the centenary of that great work. Back to Home Page