Area Events for 2025
Huge thanks to our Area Representatives who put together and deliver a wonderful series of Area Days across our five regions. Find out more below – details to follow for our Central and South East members.
Singing for All: Inclusion and Diversity for Authentic Performance
Saturday 1 February 2025
9.30am–5pm
With:
KATIE TEAGE – educator, choir conductor and soprano for the London Vocal Project
LEY ADEWOLE – award-winning gospel singer, vocal coach and choir director
Falmouth University Academy of Music and Theatre Arts
Performing Arts Centre
South West Area Day – Singing for All: Inclusion and Diversity for Authentic Performance (Falmouth)
United We Sing: Inclusive practices for deaf, trans and non-binary singers in group singing activities
Sunday 2 February 2025
10.00am–5.30pm
With:
DR MICHAEL BONSHOR – Professor of Voice, Wellbeing and Performance Psychology at Leeds Conservatoire
PAUL WHITTAKER OBE – speaker, musician, performer and BSL leader for Rock Choir
C. Bechstein Centre, Manchester
Q&A with SQA and Teaching Teenagers
Sunday 16 February 2025
10.30am–4pm
With:
MANDY MILLER – deputy principal assessor for higher music at SQA, choir founder, teacher of choral conducting and workshop practitioner with over 40 years’ teaching experience
Edinburgh Society of Musicians
Singing for All: Inclusion and Diversity for Authentic Performance
Sunday 2 March 2025
9.30am–5.00pm
With:
KATIE TEAGE – educator, choir conductor and soprano for the London Vocal Project
KIM SAMUELS – founder and director of Renewal Choir CIC, and director of UWE Bristol Gospel Choir and the Bristol Windrush Reggae Choir
Bristol Beacon Music Centre
South West Area Day – Singing for All: Inclusion and Diversity for Authentic Performance (Bristol)
AOTOS Area Representatives
You can find out more about your Area Representative here on our Who We Are page, or contact them directly:
- North Area Representative: Julie Thompson [email protected]
- Central Area Representative: Charlotte Mendly [email protected]
- South East Area Representative: Emily Gray [email protected]
- South West Area Representative: Jenna Brown [email protected]
- Scotland Area Representative: Fiona Shelfer [email protected]
We hope you will enjoy the programme of Area Events that has been planned for our 50th Anniversary year in 2025. Please feel free to get in touch with [email protected] if you have any questions or feedback.
