Diversity Choir

Andrea Brown, Musical Director

Singer and Choral Conductor, Andrea first studied singing at St Andrews University, later going on to the RSAMD and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. 

As a singer, Andrea’s concert experience has led her to perform and record at some of the finest concert halls in Europe with professional ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, Ex Cathedra and Coro Cervantes.  Equally at home on the stage, her operatic experience includes performances at Shakespeare’s Globe, Spitalfields Festival, the Split Festival and Hampton Court Palace.

Andrea is Head of Vocal Studies and Performance at Morley College, London, where she coaches singers at all levels and conducts the Can’t Sing Choir,  the inspiration for the BBC television show The Can’t Sing Singers. The unusual work and success of the choir has been featured on ITV News, Channel 4, BBC World Service and BBC Radio London.  Having enjoyed two and a half years as Deputy Musical Director and Vocal Coach with the celebrated London Gay Men’s Chorus, a two hundred-strong male voice choir, she is now Musical Director of Diversity, London’s LGBT chamber choir, formed to explore and perform diverse repertoires both in London and abroad.

It is with this wide experience of singing and choral direction that Andrea is Co-Artistic Director of Various Voices 2009, an international choral festival being held over May Bank Holiday 2009 at the Southbank Centre, London.  Various Voices is a festival of song and singing that will enable participants and audiences to grow through participation, interaction and celebration.