Birmingham, Town Hall

Jack Lovell-Huckle is currently working as a Conductor, Arranger/Orchestrator, Orchestral Librarian and Piano Technician.

A music graduate from the University of Birmingham, he went on to study Orchestral Conducting with David Jones at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. As well as working extensively with all the ensembles he assisted Timothy Murray (National Dance Company of Wales), Alice Farnham (Welsh National Youth Opera), Nicholas Cleobury (Britten Sinfonia), Sir Richard Armstrong (Scottish Opera) and Carlo Rizzi (Welsh National Opera). He also took part in masterclasses with baroque virtuoso violinist Rachel Podger and musicians from Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

In 2015 he assisted Alice Farnham on David Bruce’s The Firework-Maker’s Daughter at the Royal Opera House and was Musical Director for Somerset Opera’s production of Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Donald Maxwell.

Jack is currently the Music Director for the Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra, Musical Director for Opera’r Ddraig, Cardiff and
Chorus Director for Spires Music, Coventry. He is passionate about working with professional performers, emerging artists, and amateur musicians as well as devising and leading concerts for young and diverse audiences. He has continued his conducting studies with Michael Seal and is currently the Librarian at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as well as being in demand as a Piano Technician across the Midlands.

Judith Le Breuilly is a Mezzo Soprano from Birmingham.  She is currently based in Ghent, Belgium as a young artist at the International Opera Academy. She was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio for their 2020/21 cohort and an Associate Artist the following year.  Prior to this she studied at the Royal College of Music as an RCM scholar with Dinah Harris, Carolyn Dowdle, and Simon Lepper where she gained a Master of Performance with Distinction.  Her Undergraduate studies were at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Margaret Izatt, and Julia Lynch, graduating with a first class Degree and winning both the Jean Highgate Scholarship for singers and the Govenors’ Recital Prize for Singing.

In competition, she has won the 2024 New Voices competition at the Aldborough Festival, and 6th Prize at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition. She was also a finalist in the 2020 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and a Garsington Alvarez Young Artist for the 2022 season.

Judith also has experience as a concert and oratorio soloist. Her recent work includes; Verdi’s Requiem with Hutton and Shenfield Choral Society, Mahler’s Second Symphony with Leamington Sinfonia, and Handel’s Lucrezia with Volante Strings.  Other performances have been with Scunthorpe and District Choral Society, Redditch Choral Society, Stowemarket Chorale, Buckingham Choral Society, The Waverley Singers, Reigate and Redhill Choral Society, and she is a regular soloist with The Midland Concert Orchestra.

Choir master : James Llewelyn-Jones.

The Midlands Hospitals’ Choir is a large, mixed voice choir based in Birmingham, in the heart of the UK. Formed in 1981 in memory of Sir Malcolm Sargent and the charity set up in his name, the choir originally drew its members from local hospitals.