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2-4 November 2001

Betty Roe

Richard Wilkins        

You are welcome to bring solo songs of any style to be worked on in general sessions. Please will each participant also prepare an English song or a song to be sung in English, which he/she would like to sing as part of the final, complete presentation which we hope to give at the final session on Sunday afternoon. 

PLEASE MEMORISE THIS ITEM and send a copy in your chosen key to Betty Roe, 14 Barlby Road, London W10 6AR to reach her by Saturday 30th September. It is essential that you bring copies of your songs to the course. 

Betty Roe studied piano, 'cello and singing at the Royal Academy of Music and later composition with Lennox Berkeley. She was Director of Music for ten years at the London Academy of music and Dramatic Art.   She and her husband, John Bishop, founded Thames Publishing in 1970, which specialises in English song. 

Richard Wilkins is Director of Music at the Hall School in Hampstead and Conductor of the Tritone Chamber Choir on the Isle of Wight-where he now lives.  He studied music at Nottingham University and did post-graduate in piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.