Paul White

Musical Director

In the summer of 2008 Paul retired from his position as Director of Music of the Stamford Endowed Schools, a post he had held since 1982.

He was the first joint director over the three schools with a department of up to forty music staff. At the same time Paul also retired as Musical Director of Stamford Choral Society, with which he had been associated since 1984.

 

He read music at Oxford (Wadham College) and has sat on the Executive of the Music Education Council, examined for the Oxford University Delegacy of Local Examinations and served on the Council of the Schools Music Association.

 

He also holds a post–graduate research degree in Educational Management for which he studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, a college which, in earlier years, had elected him to a fellow-commonership. He is currently a School Inspector.

 

Paul’s musical activities have included composition and arrangement, playing the viola, conducting (in 1977 he founded the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra), running choral workshops and directing musical productions.

 

Not wishing to banish choral conducting from his life, but seeking a new direction, Paul has formed Stamford Singers and looks forward to visiting cathedrals, churches and other venues with the choir.