Director of Music: Benjamin Teague M.Mus(Hons.)
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Benjamin Teague (they/them) is a freelance Welsh conductor, organist, and composer based in Cardiff. Benjamin is a Bachelor's and Master's 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
Accompanist: Emily Gait-Scaglioni
Emily Gait-Scaglioni (she/her) is a Music Teacher, Conductor and Accompanist living in Barry. Athrawes gerdd, arweinydd a chyfeilydd yw Emily Gait-Scaglioni ac mae hi’n byw yn y Barri.
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Emily studied Piano with Fazliddin Husanov and Singing with Kate Woolveridge then went on to study Music, Piano & Double Bass at the University of York. She has been accompanying choirs since 2018, having previously accompanied Penarth Community Choir for 6 years and has also worked for Caerphilly & Llantrisant Male Voice Choirs, Eisteddfod choir Côr Bryn Owain and Cardiff Chamber Choir. She is a former member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales has enjoyed playing double bass with various amateur orchestras across South Wales.
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Emily was appointed Musical Director for Barry Ladies Choir in September 2024 after enjoying an exciting 6 months as Inteirm Director for Tonyrefail Ladies Choir. She has also been Co-Musical Director for Spectrum Singers since 2022, having sung with the choir since 2016.
Emily has built up a wide range of teaching experience with Adult Education Services, studying The Piano Teachers Course UK, secondary PGCE training and 7 years with Forte School of Music. She now teaches privately and is an enthusiastic new Welsh speaker.
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: Lesley Jones
Trustee and Vice Chair: Janet Daly
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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