Musical Directors

GWYN ARCH our musical director  founded the Reading Male Voice Choir in 1971. He was  Director of Music at Bulmershe College of Higher Education until his retirement in 1985. A Composition Fellow of Trinity College , London, and a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, he has composed and arranged hundreds of songs and choral works. He is one of the most frequently performed arrangers in the BBC's Choir of the Year competition.
He is in constant demand as an adjudicator and examined for the Associated Board for ten years. He is also the Musical Director of the very popular South Chiltern Choral Society. In the little spare time available to him he enjoys playing jazz piano.
Gwyn was awarded the MBE for services to music in Berkshire in the 2006 Queens Birthday Honours List.

CLIVE WATERMAN is the Choir's accompanist and deputy musical director. He is well known as a conductor and arranger for children's groups.  He served for many years as a primary school Head teacher, as musical director of the Woodley and Earley Primary Schools' Music Association, and has been a Trustee of the Berkshire  Maestros, which encourages children's involvement in music throughout Berkshire.

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