Joy is a conductor at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, directing the Chamber Choir and Girls' Choir. She also teaches academic music and works with choirs at the Purcell School. She directs Vigala Singers and founded New Commonwealth Voices in 2010. Renowned for her commitment to performances of students' compositions as well as music by leading contemporary composers she was awarded the title Magistra Choiri at the International Scientific and Artistic Symposium on Choral Music in Zagreb, Croatia (2010) and was a presenter at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Argentina (2011). Originally a first-study pianist studying with Eric Parkin and Christopher Elton, Joy won a conducting scholarship with Jon Washburn in Canada and a Churchill Fellowship (2002/3) for choral conducting in Sweden. She has worked as a teacher, advisory teacher for voice, a member of the Centre for Performance Science, RCM, and as Senior Lecturer in Music and Music Education, University of Surrey Roehampton and Lecturer at the Institute of Education London University, teaching on the secondary and primary Post Graduate Certificate in Education and as a tutor on the MA in Choral Education. She works increasingly as guest conductor, lecturer and adjudicator in the UK and abroad, most recently in Japan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, South Africa, Uganda and Slovenia and has published articles and research considering cross-cultural choral performance and the conducting of young voices. She will take part in the symposium Choirs Transforming Our World, Yale International Choral Festival, (2012) Yale School of Music, USA.

special interests...

The art of choral performance with young adult voices and working with composers of choral music.

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