Chloe conducts a diverse range of church, concert and community choirs, with children, young people and adults from varied backgrounds.
Choral Director, The Purcell School for Young Musicians (2024-)
Choral Director, The Priory Church of St Peter, Dunstable (2024-)
Associate Choral Leader, St-Martin-in-the-Fields (2023-4)
Director, Aquila (Upper-Voice Choir, St John’s College Cambridge) (2023-)
Director, Selwyn Voices (Community Choir, Selwyn College Cambridge) (2023-)
Director, Choir 2000 Choral Society (2021-)
Director, Women of Note Choir (Upper-Voice Community Choir, Cambridge) (2020-)
Chloe came to conducting from singing and found facilitating inclusive group singing to be highly rewarding. She first learnt this with Women of Note, an upper-voice community choir, who learn without sheet music, who she has been directing since 2020. With them, she has honed efficient and clear rehearsal techniques and learnt to allow her background as a singer and vocal coach to inform her conducting. Through warmups, rehearsal language and the nature of her gestures, she seeks to encourage healthy, sustainable and therefore ultimately enjoyable singing.
Since 2021, she has directed Choir 2000, a choral society based in Histon, Cambridge, with whom she has performed both choral society staples (Verdi Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach Magnificat) and less familiar pieces (George Dyson’s Canterbury Pilgrims and George Shearing’s Song and Sonnets from Shakespeare). Both her singing and her conducting are informed by her academic background. She looks in close analytical detail at the words and the music in her preparation, so that she has the tools to invite her singers to come together to shape a collective performance with sincere meaning. She firmly believes that it is much more fun as a member of a choir to know why the director is asking for something, rather than just being asked to do it.
In 2023-24, she was selected as an Associate Choral Leader at St-Martin-in-the-Fields and this led to her appointment in 2024 as Choral Director at Dunstable Priory Church. There she has greatly improved and expanded the choirs, doubling the number of child choristers, establishing a choral scholarship programme for state-educated teenagers and introducing volunteer adult singers.
In 2024, she was appointed the Choral Director at The Purcell School for Young Musicians, a specialist music school in North London. This involves working with all the pupils in the school, whether singers or not, to integrate choral singing into their musical development. She also used her background in opera, as a singer and a director, to direct Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in the Summer of 2024, the school’s first opera for several years.