MY SCRAPBOOK
On this page you can find some scrapbook photographs and news cuttings from my past
Highcliffe Junior Choir
This picture was taken at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in July 1977. I have been involved with the choir for over thirty years and have performed with them at Llangollen on nine occasions as singer, pianist and conductor.
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Listen to the Youth Choir performing at the 1984 Eisteddfod. Conductor Mark Hammond, Pianist Rosemary Barnes. Buxtehude - "Zion Hear's The Watchman's Voices" & Trant' s "Love Came Down At Christmas".
Listen to the Youth Choir performing my carol "I Sing of a Maiden", recorded in the mid-eighties.
Peterhouse Choir
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Listen to members of Peterhouse Choir performing Dowland's "Come Again" & Morley's "My Bonnie Lass" at the 1986 May Week Concert (D.Seifert, D.Nesbit, R.Goodrich Sopranos, R.Mortishire Alto, M.Hammond Tenor, S.Healy, C.Hawkins Bass. (Realplayer required)
UPDATE DEC 2025
I was devastated to learn of the deaths of two Peterhouse choirmembers during the past year - Olive Murray and Simon Healy. My thoughts and prayers are with their families.
Olive Murray (Front row, Second from Right) died in November 2025. A member of Emmanuel College, Olive was already singing at Peterhouse when I arrived in 1983 and remained a loyal and valuable member of the soprano line during my three years at Cambridge. After graduating, we remained good friends and I was lucky enough to attend many of Olive's performances, not least in Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" at the Royal Opera House. I last heard Olive perform at the National Gallery in January where she was on fine form.
Simon Healy (Middle row, Extreme Right) died on October 31st 2024 at the age of 59. There is a tribute to Simon here. Simon was a loyal, cheerful, utterly reliable and extremely musical member of Peterhouse Choir and I was honoured to conduct the choir, which included Olive and Frank Jacobs (long-time friend and honorary Peterhouse choir member!), at the wedding of Simon and Lucy in Cambridge. I was sad that I was unable to attend the funeral in St Alban's Cathedral but Olive sang at the ceremony and Simon's friend and fellow Petrean, Allegri Quartet violinist Raphael Todes also performed.
In 2005 - the twentieth anniversary of my final year as Organ Scholar at Peterhouse - I attempted to contact as many choir members as I could. This is the latest information I have although I am aware that it is desperately out of date - some comes from the people themselves and some comes from internet research and was correct at the time.
Dr Justin Cross (Middle row, First from Left) is a Neuroradiologist at Addenbrookes Hospital
Renee Early is teaching at a secondary school near San Francisco. She is not pictured on the photograph as she had returned to America at the start of the 1985-86 academic year
Dr Jenny Wallace (Middle row, Seventh from Left) is Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse
Neil Hartman (Back row, Second from Left) is Head of Nuclear Medicine at Swansea Bay University Health Board
Martin Robinson (Back row, Fourth from Left) is a software consultant with DAI and until recently played the organ at St Mary's Church, Watford
Dr Andrew Goldsbrough (Back row, First from Left) is Manager of the East of England Relay Centre in Cambridge, which promotes technology transfer across European borders. He sings with both Choir 2000 in Histon and with CUMS
Rachel Mortishire (Middle Row, Fifth from Left) has a floristry business in Cheshire
Elsbeth Dixon (Middle Row, Eighth from Left) is Executive Director of the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management in Johannesburg
John Sellgren (Middle Row, Fourth from Left) retired at the end of 2023 from his post as Executive Director at Dorset Council
Rosalind Goodrich (Front Row, Seventh from Left) is communications manager for bassac the British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres a membership body for a network of key community organisations providing services to local people
Still looking for Jim Lloyd, William Hutchings, Chris Hawkins, Charlotte Dahms or Dagmar Seifert
Peter Symonds College
This picture appeared in the Portsmouth Evening News following a performance by members of the Hampshire Specialist Music Course at the Central Library in Portsmouth on June 10th 1981. On the left is the original newspaper cutting while the photograph is on the right.
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Christchurch Priory
This picture was taken in the early seventies during a filming for a Southern TV programme "Songs of Celebration"
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