Chris Grant has been our musical director and conductor since 1981. He trained at the Royal College of Music in London where he studied piano with Angus Morrison while putting other energies into playing the oboe and the harpsichord, and specialising in piano accompaniment and conducting.  He won prizes as piano accompanist while at the Royal College and then worked as a repetiteur and singing coach.  Chris is an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.  He also puts much time and enthusiasm into running Link Ethiopia (GondarLink), a charity focused on the education and welfare of young people in Ethiopia, a country that he visits twice a year.