Susan Hollingworth

A Graduate of the Royal College of Music where she studied voice, Sue divides her time between her work as a Choral Director and Music Educator. In 1990 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for her work with choirs.

As well as being the Conductor of Sine Nomine International Touring Choir, Sue is Musical Director of Scunthorpe Cooperative Junior Choir. This choir has been a regular finalist in Sainsbury's Choir of the Year as well as singing at the 2000 Sydney Olympics Torch Processions, at the opening night celebrations of the Millennium Dome and at the first Holocaust Memorial Service at Westminster. This year it was chosen to make a BBC programme called "Take a Bow" about interesting activities children do after school. Sue is Music Director of the National Youth Choir of Scotland SATB Touring Choir and also conducts the National Youth Choir of Great Britain Girls Choir. For the last four years she has conducted the Grimsby Philharmonic Choir and this year is working at Canford Summer School conducting the Chamber Choir Course.

Sue's Music Education work includes being Project Director and a Senior Advisory Teacher for the Voices Foundation, part-time Music Advisor to North Lincolnshire and she regularly gives workshops for Making Music, 20,000 Voices based in Northumberland, NOEL, Sing for Pleasure and Youth Music. Next year she will conduct Noye's Fudde at the Three Choir's Festival.

Sine Nomine International Touring Choir

Sine Nomine was formed in 1988 by James Wild from members of ‘Sing for Pleasure’ – The National Choral Organisation, former students from Bretton Hall College, Yorkshire, and friends. The intention in forming the choir was to create a group of singers which could reach a high standard with just three or four rehearsals each year, and enjoy touring, both in Britain and abroad. Since then the choir has grown in size, with singers travelling to rehearsals from all over the country.

The choir is perhaps unique in that it includes a large number of singers who are themselves conductors, of adult and/or children’s choirs. Some have made a name for themselves in their own right, with two former winners of the BFYC ‘Conductor of the Year’ award and many others with award-winning choirs.

The choir sings a very varied repetoire, which includes music to suit all tastes, from sixteenth century motets and madrigals from different countries, through 19th and 20th century part songs, to spirituals, popular items and African repetoire. Sine Nomine has had the great privilege of participating in workshops with Jonathan Rathbone (former director of the King's Singers) and was proud to be asked to record a CD of compositions by Alan Bullard for OUP.

Sine Nomine has undertaken many foreign tours, including Belgium, Norway, Canada, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Italy. Whilst in Vaison-la-Romaine in the South of France, the choir performed in an ancient amphitheatre to an audience of over 5000! Sine Nomine has also enjoyed performing at a wide variety of venues throughout the UK, including a concert at Dunblane Cathedral as part of a mini-tour of Scotland, at The Sage, Gateshead and at the Worcester Three Choirs Festival. The choir is honoured to have twice been invited to be guest choir at The Presteigne Festival.