Keith Motson B.Mus(Lond) (Hons)
Keith was born in Suffolk and began his musical training at the age of 6. He studied piano, flute organ and percussion at school before going on to Trinity College of Music, London, where he studied percussion and latterly conducting. He won the Adam Collins and the Ricordi Conducting Prizes at Trinity, the Ricordi for his work on a college opera, Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges. He graduated with the London University B. Mus degree and began teaching.
Keith’s musical tastes are wide, taking in jazz and musical theatre as well as orchestral and choral music and he has held conducting posts in all these genres. He spent four years as Choral Conductor of Bournemouth musical group Gli Amici della Musica conducting works such as Bruckner’s Requiem and Mozart’s Great C Minor Mass as well as Beethoven’s 3rd and 5th Symphonies. He has also directed choirs and orchestras in works such as Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah and Durufle’s Requiem. He has recently conducted Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Yehudi Menhuin School in Surrey.
In demand as a Musical Director as well, Keith spent two months as resident MD at the Edinburgh Festival on 42nd Street and has also been MD for productions of A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, Grease, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Oliver, Anything Goes! and Company, as well as Associate MD for Sweeney Todd, A Chorus Line and Into the Woods.
Keith spent two years with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with whom he toured extensively and is now Projects Manager for the Association of British Orchestras. He is also Organist and Director of Music for St Peter’s Church, Bushey Heath. Keith has been Musical Director with Havering Singers since September 2005.
