Fran Jefferies
Rehearsal Accompanist
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Fran is a MA Piano Accompaniment graduate from the Royal Academy of Music. She is also a first study harpsichordist, known for her sensitive accompanying skills, performing with instrumentalists, groups and singers.
As a répétiteur, she has played for several musical theatre productions, such as Into The Woods, Fiddler on the Roof and several baroque operas such as Saul, Acis and Galatea and King Arthur, which were performed in the Assembly Rooms and the Pump Rooms in Bath. Fran has performed in the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO. She is currently a secondary school music teacher and a piano and recorder teacher for Music Discovery Dagenham. She has played numerous recitals, competitions, choirs and is heavily involved in outreach and educational projects. |
Nigel Brown
Concert Accompanist
Nigel Brown started to play the organ at an early age. He graduated to the organ at the age of twelve. At
university, although he studied Geography, he held the organ scholarship for three years and, upon
graduating in 1986, took up his first teaching post in Cambridgeshire and settled in Suffolk where he soon
became involved in local music.
Over the past thirty years, he has worked with a number of local musical groups and societies. His
involvement in local music has included being organist at St Andrew’s Church, Halstead in the early 1990s;
singing in St Edmundsbury Cathedral choir as a tenor lay clerk; playing piano or keyboards for musicals,
pantomimes and other theatrical performances. He has also been known to conduct orchestras and choirs,
plays the harpsichord and, at a push, the harmonium!
He is currently organist and choir master at Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, though enjoys the opportunity
to play at many local churches.
Concert Accompanist
Nigel Brown started to play the organ at an early age. He graduated to the organ at the age of twelve. At
university, although he studied Geography, he held the organ scholarship for three years and, upon
graduating in 1986, took up his first teaching post in Cambridgeshire and settled in Suffolk where he soon
became involved in local music.
Over the past thirty years, he has worked with a number of local musical groups and societies. His
involvement in local music has included being organist at St Andrew’s Church, Halstead in the early 1990s;
singing in St Edmundsbury Cathedral choir as a tenor lay clerk; playing piano or keyboards for musicals,
pantomimes and other theatrical performances. He has also been known to conduct orchestras and choirs,
plays the harpsichord and, at a push, the harmonium!
He is currently organist and choir master at Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, though enjoys the opportunity
to play at many local churches.