Philip Viveash-Brainch
Philip is a music graduate of New College, Oxford where he was a choral scholar. Subsequently, he trained with English National Opera’s Baylis Programme before studying at the Royal College of Music as a pstgraduate singer. As a soloist, he performed in opera, oratorio and recital. As a choral singer he has sung with many choirs in concerts and in live radio and tv broadcasts, such as the BBC Proms, and toured America and Europe.He founded and conducted a number of nationally award-winning children’s and youth choirs and conducted them on both BBC television and radio. More locally, he was Director of Music at St. Thomas-on-The Bourne. Whilst Assistant Director of Music at Tiffin School, and Director of Music at Tiffin Girls’ School, he prepared the school choirs for performances with major orchestras and opera houses including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle for recordings and live broadcast from the Proms, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mariinsky Opera.
Since leaving teaching and music in 2016, and retraining at Chelsea College of Art, Philip is an interior and architectural designer, and has an office based in Farnham. but nevertheless, remains an active musician himself and passionate about music and arts education. Philip’s musical claim to fame is that Margery, the choir's esteemed previous accompanist, was his first-ever piano teacher!
Philip took over as choir Musical Director in July 2023.
