Ben Westerman Appointed As Our New Musical Director

TPS is delighted to announce that Ben Westerman will be joining the Society as Music Director from January 2020. With a wealth of experience gained in the UK and Europe, Ben has conducted chamber groups, full-scale orchestras and large choirs. Recent debuts in Romania...

Temporary Music Director Sep-Nov 2019: Matthew Scott Rogers

The much-anticipated May concert with TonPhil’s new Music Director, Mark Biggins, was a huge success and we really enjoyed working with him. Unfortunately, though, he has had a cycling accident and has broken his shoulder.  The injury will require a concentrated...

Music Director April 2019-May 2019: Mark Biggins

We’re looking forward to April 2019 when Mark Biggins joins TPS as Music Director. Mark is an accomplished choral and orchestral conductor, singer and pianist, who is Assistant Chorusmaster with English National Opera. In the meantime our concerts in February and...

Music Director 2014-2018: Matthew Willis

Matthew worked with some of the world’s finest musicians, orchestras and choirs, and has built a reputation for passionate performances through an inspiring, scholarly approach.  He has conducted the State Symphony Orchestra Novaya Rossiya, the Hamburg...

1981

Thirty-five years into the Society’s history (halfway through, at the time of writing), the records are no longer handwritten, but are typed and stapled into the Minute Book. The Society was moving forward in terms of technology with the purchase, for £464, of a...

Ongoing Preparations for the Society’s First Concert

Detailed work on preparations for the society’s inaugural concert (Handel’s Messiah) was underway. 100 posters were to be printed, along with 1,000 programmes, to be sold at 1/- each. Curiously, the record then states that to facilitate distribution, each...