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Musical Director: Ben Teague
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Benjamin Teague (they/them) is a freelance Welsh conductor, organist, and composer based in Cardiff. Benjamin is a bachelors and masters graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where they studied composition with Michael McCartney and the late Peter Reynolds, alongside organ studies at Llandaff Cathedral with David Geoffrey Thomas. Benjamin is the co-Director of Music and founder of Cardiff Chamber Choir, an ensemble focused on including works by marginalised and/or forgotten composers in their programme alongside the mainstays of modern repertoire. The ensemble have performed several concerts together across South Wales and continue to enjoy working relationships with many different musicians around the country. Benjamin was appointed as Director of Music of Canton Chorus in February 2025, having enjoyed a long relationship with the choir as the Principal Accompanist. 
 
Benjamin is the accompanist for the Choir With No Name (Cardiff), a choir focused on people with experience of homelessness and/or marginalisation, and is a staff pianist with the Forget Me Not Chorus charity which delivers interactive choir sessions in care homes and hospitals, specialising in working with residents with varying types of dementia. As an organist Benjamin has accompanied many ensembles and choirs, and has performed several solo organ recitals across the country, including at St David’s, Bangor, Brecon, Cardiff, Newport, and Bristol Cathedrals, on the 1775/1864 John Snetzler organ at the National Museum of Wales, and as a pianist in the main pavilion of the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol with Choirs For Good in 2024.


www.benjaminteaguemusic.co.uk
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Founder and Musical Director Emeritus(1990-2025): John Abraham

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John Abraham studied conducting at the Cranford Summer School of Music in the early 1980s, and has subsequently undertaken courses with the Association of British Choral Directors. John’s love of music, alongside his social conscience, inspired him to lead Côr Cochion, which he led until the early 1990s, producing many musical arrangements which are still widely used.

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In 1990 John pursued his interests in classical choral music and formed Canton Chorus, adopting John’s principles of inclusivity and welcome, allowing all people to make and perform classical music. In 2008 John formed Côr Elen in Abergavenny, a choir which performs a cappella, often socialist, songs.

 

Some of the singers John has helped into the music world have subsequently  taken formal lessons, attended various music courses across the country, and sing with Opera Mint, Opera in Situ, and WNO’s Community Chorus

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He was awarded the Leonard and Marian Jones Music in the Community Award of £250 from the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning for his unending commitment to accessible community music making. 

Trustees & Post Holders

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Trustee and Chair:          Steve Bowkett

Trustee and Vice Chair:  Richard Tebboth

Trustee and Secretary:   Anna Brazier

Trustee and Treasurer:   Neil Schofield

Trustee:                          Margot Henery

 

Part Representatives

 

Soprano:                         Sara Hayes

Alto:                                Rosemary Morgan

Tenor:                             Margot Henery

Bass:                                Gareth Jones

 

Other

 

Librarian:                          Jane Brown

Communications              Lesley Jones

Web Manager:                 Phil Hawkins

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© 2025 Canton Chorus, Registered Charity no. 1166663

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