Biographies

Musical Director
Dan Adams

Dan has worked as a music director for 8 years, specialising in amateur and community choirs. He is currently music director with The Grand Choir in Clitheroe and Darwen Library Larks and choral director with Ormskirk Music Society. In addition to music directing, Dan is also a busy music arranger and journalist, currently working as web and magazine editor for the Light Music Society.

In 2018, he co-founded and served as artistic director for the Clitheroe Festival of choirs, which brought together 20 choirs in different venues in the Ribble Valley over the course of a single weekend. In 2020-21, he ran virtual choir rehearsals online, producing arrangements and ultimately a CD with all singers recording themselves in their own homes, to be mixed into a final performance. Post lockdown, he produced another CD working with the A Cappella Singers, with Gareth Malone appearing at one rehearsal exploring the possibility of a documentary on choirs in the North West.

Accompanist
Paul Greenhalgh

We are privileged to have Paul as our regular accompanist. He was born in Lancashire in 1958. A BMus degree from Cardiff University was followed by two post-graduate years at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, studying piano with Philip Kubilius, Martin Jones, Geoffrey Buckley and more recently with Martin Roscoe. Whilst at Cardiff, he was awarded the Harlech Television Prize and the Morfydd Owen Prize.
 

Paul appears regularly as recitalist and accompanist at venues throughout the North West. He is Principal of the Blackburn School of Music and teaches piano at Stonyhurst College in the Ribble Valley.
 

Recent concerts include a solo recital at St. Michael’s Church, Egerton Road, Preston in October. Paul is also a member of the Pendle Piano Trio, alongside violinist Gaynor Sutcliffe and cellist Bob Buller. Forthcoming concerts include a solo recital at Lancaster Priory in May along with further appearances at Lancaster Music Makers concerts in the chapel of the University of Cumbria in Lancaster.