About Us

Susan has fifty years' experience as an arranger and choir leader, firstly as a teacher until her early retirement in 1997. Since then she has worked with her husband, Michael, on a number of original cantatas for schools as well as leading Amicus, the highly acclaimed local sixteen-voice choir, for many years.

Since coming to Lymm, Michael & Susan have made a huge contribution to the musical life of the village by participating in and leading a number of events.

Michael and his wife Susan have a musical partnership of fifty years. For many years he was Head of Music at a local comprehensive school where Susan also taught. Since early retirement  from teaching in 1997 Michael has worked on a number of original cantatas for schools for which he was also musical director and orchestral conductor. In addition he has pursued a parallel career as a freelance musician. Michael supports the choir playing saxophone, among other instruments, and also arranges some of the backing tracks for the choir.

Josh, as well as being one of the musical directors for Lymm Sings, is the Music Coordinator for Warrington Youth Orchestra. Since his time at Lymm High School he has been engaged with both instrumental and choral music, and studied Music at the University of Birmingham with a focus on conducting, at which time he co-founded the university String Orchestra and sang with the BBC Proms Youth Choir at the First Night of the Proms. Josh has since worked in the music department of Casterton Sedbergh Preparatory School in North West England, taking part in regular concerts and accompanying the school Chamber Choir on a trip to perform in Cambridge. In addition to directing Lymm Sings and overseeing the music technology, Josh arranges some of the choral parts and backing tracks for the choir, and also performs with the small ensemble of singers, Shades of Blue.