Members
Please click on a member's name for more information.
Please click on a member's name for more information.
Tom Recknell (Musical Director)
Countertenor
Tom has sung
with King's both as a chorister and a choral
scholar. He is currently studying music primarily
to kick-start a career as a composer. The styles
of his compositions range from popular music to
musicals, orchestral suites to choral anthems.
Some of his work has been published by Novello,
performed on national radio and in world famous
concert halls internationally. Tom hopes to
continue singing after King's to support his
composition.
James Neville
Countertenor
James is a
post-graduate Choral Scholar in Kings choir. We
try not to speak about James’ former education, a
graduate of the university where they can’t punt
properly or spell Magdalene correctly, although
whilst there he sung with distinction as both a
Choral Scholar and Lay Clerk in said college of
woeful misspelled fame. James is currently
studying for an MPhil in Musicology at Kings as
well as pursuing a busy programme of solo
engagements with upcoming performances of
Handel’s Jeptha
and Bach’s and
Bach’s St John
Passion in Trinity Chapel and
Messiah
in Llandaff
Cathedral to name but a few.
Ed Rex
Countertenor
Ed is one of several current choral scholars at
King's to have started his musical training as a
chorister in the choir, and as the eldest of six
brothers comes from a family which has not been
absent from the ranks singing the daily services
in the Chapel since 1995. He continued his
education at The King's School, Canterbury, where
he co-founded the school's Close Harmony group
and ran its two Jazz Groups, and spent his gap
year working with the choristers at St. Paul's
Cathedral School. He now reads Music at
Cambridge, and in his spare time plays flute in
the University Jazz Orchestra.
Cameron Foote
Countertenor
Cameron arrived at King’s as someone who has had
strong musical inclinations from a young age.
From 2002 - 2007 he was a music scholar at
Winchester College where he developed his flute
and piano playing and sang in the College’s
Chapel choir. After this he spent a year as the
counter-tenor choral scholar at Lichfield
Cathedral, giving him the opportunity to become
more familiar with the choral repertoire and to
enjoy the varying aspects of life in a Cathedral
Close. In his free time Cameron likes to make
collage and he hopes at some point to display
some artwork in Cambridge in addition to studying
for a philosophy degree.
Paddy Stobbs
Countertenor
Paddy, a fourth
year choral scholar reading management studies,
has spent far more time in King's Chapel than any
twenty one year-old should freely admit. A
chorister, choral scholar, and, some say, future
cleaner, Paddy also moonlights as a Trance DJ.
After graduating next summer Paddy had planned to
go into banking; he's
reconsidering.
Robbie Jacobs
Tenor
Robert is in his second year at King's, singing
tenor, and reading music in his spare time.
Before arriving in Cambridge his main singing
experience had been with the National Youth Choir
and Laudibus. He studies singing with Tim Penrose
and Sue Waters. Robert also takes an interest in
conducting and musical direction, and is the
musical director of The Omega Consort and a
recent performance of “Kiss of the Spiderwoman.”
Although not a sportsman, Robert reckons he could
do a pretty good job as manager of Arsenal.
Matt Sandy
Tenor
Matthew is in his second year at King’s reading
Music. Although being a keen flautist and
pianist, singing has been an important part of
Matthew’s life since the age of four, when his
primary school teacher first noticed his ability
to sing in tune. Since then, his love of choral
and vocal music has flourished, with a particular
fondness for church music, making a choral
scholarship at King’s an ideal choice. Matthew’s
engagements as a solo Tenor have included works
by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart and Britten.
Although close harmony singing is somewhat ‘new
territory’ for Matthew, he is thoroughly enjoying
the experience.
James Kanagasooriam
Tenor
James started singing involuntarily at 8
when his mother found him too much trouble around
the house and packed him off to be a chorister at
Canterbury Cathedral for 5 years. He continued to
sing and play the viola badly at Eton College for
the next 5 years as a music scholar, by the end
of which he was no longer singing treble!
Currently James is in his 2nd year studying
theology and religious studies. He enjoys playing
cricket, waking up the residents of his hostel
with his singing and drinking coffee. His
favourite colour is blonde.
Tom Crowe
Tenor
Tom is a first
year Choral Scholar in King’s Choir. Another
career chorister, Tom sung at Winchester as a boy
before proceeding to the little known secondary
school of same name and then singing as a Lay
Clerk at Truro in his gap year. Tom reads
economics at King’s and is interested in
developing an investment portfolio in frontline
healthcare and emergency dentistry.
Alex Stobbs
Tenor
Alex, another product of the Cleobury
conservatoire/ kindergarten, is a cricketer by
trade. Having honed his skills against the likes
of Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock as a boy he
hopes to translate his experience at finding his
rhythm and dealing with pace and pressure, into
the often intense Coll Reg environment. Whilst
also studying the piano, his ambition is to make
it big in the conducting world; a route he knows
will be a long and hard slog. In April he will
conduct Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Cadogan
Hall in London. Alex is in his first year
studying Music at King's.
Ed Ballard (Business Manager)
Baritone
Ed has pursued
choral singing from a young age and was a
Chorister at the Temple Church and until recently
a Choral Scholar in Clare College Choir. Keen to
pursue solo singing he has often appeared on the
concert and operatic stage, recently in Vaughan
Williams Sea
Symphony, as Demetrius in
Britten’s Midsummer Night’s
Dream and as Guglielmo in
Mozart’s Cosi fan
Tutte. Ed co-founded the close
harmony group ‘Over the Bridge’ and is now
Business Manager for Collegium Regale, he will be
beginning a postgraduate course at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama in September this
year.
Simon Chambers
Baritone
Having started singing at the age of just 6 in
Liverpool Cathedral choir, Simon joined King’s as
a chorister in 1997. His time in the choir
coincided with many successful tours abroad –
including Bermuda, the USA, Australia and Japan –
as well as numerous recordings and concerts. A
keen bassoonist, he earned a music scholarship to
Eton College in 2002 where he studied until the
age of 18. After the hectic life led at Eton
(where he ran the Music Society in his final
year) Simon took a year off in Italy, in order to
become fluent in the language before studying it
at Cambridge. Simon is in his second year and
reads Modern Languages (French and Italian).
David Cane
Bass
David first began singing as a chorister at
Leicester Cathedral, continuing to sing there as
a bass throughout his time at school after his
voice had broken. Also, as a keen stylophonist,
he often performs in smaller ensembles and hopes
to form his own exciting trio in the near future.
David is currently in his first year at King's,
where he is studying for a degree in theology and
religious studies. David enjoys playing the piano
and organ and has some experience accompanying
choirs around Leicester. Most recently, David has
achieved his '50 metres' swimming award (with
distinction).
Toby Young
Bass
Toby is a second
year Choral Scholar in Kings Choir. A composer by
trade, he has been writing music from a young age
and has won numerous competitions including BBC
Young Composer of the year, Cathcart Composer of
the year and has had works performed by leading
orchestras such as the LSO and the RPO. A recent
graduate of Kings Voices he continues to pursue a
keen interest in choral music, perhaps heralding
a new spate of compositions away from the
orchestral circuit.
Nick Bown
Bass
Nicholas studied the double bass for 10 years
before turning seriously to singing at the age of
17. He attended the Junior Department of the
Royal College of Music, playing in their Symphony
Orchestra in addition to being a member of both
the National Youth Orchestra and the National
Youth Choir. A final year choral scholar, he is
reading for a degree in Music, whilst taking a
keen interest in conducting and chamber music. He
currently studies singing with Susan Waters.
James Mawson
Bass
James has just started his final year reading
music at King’s: after graduating he intends to
work in music theatre as an
actor/singer/dancer. Having also been at
King’s as a chorister, he has been in close
contact with the performing arts (particularly
“classical” music) throughout his life.
Composing and arranging have interested him for
some time and he particularly enjoys arranging
for Coll Reg.
Peter Stevens
Organ
Peter comes from Bury in Lancashire, famous above
all for its black puddings. He began playing the
organ at the age of five, and became organist of
his local church at the tender age of seven. He
spent his sixth form years at Chetham's School of
Music in Manchester, and before coming to King's,
a gap year as Organ Scholar at St. George's
Chapel, Windsor Castle. Now in his third year at
Cambridge, he is reading for a degree in music.
When not in the organ loft, he can be found with
a copy of his favourite read, The Catholic
Herald!
Greg Drott
Organ
Gregory Drott studied organ and piano during his
gap year at the Royal College of Music before
reading for a degree in music at Cambridge, where
he was Organ Scholar at Pembroke College. His
jazz trio won a prize at RCM and has performed
widely in London, including at Kensington Palace.
He is currently writing about the
'post-minimalist' music of John Adams for the
Cambridge MusB degree. In his spare time he
enjoys not being occupied.