
Bridget Budge
She is the founder and conductor of Halifax-based chamber choir ORION, and is in demand as a choral leader, vocal coach (Huddersfield Choral Society, Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield) and concert facilitator (Square Chapel for the Arts, Brighouse Festival). She was Music Director of the Pennine Spring Festival for six years, and has taught singing at Leeds University and Leeds College of Music. She occasionally still appears in recital and was last seen leading audiences in Rule Britannia with Black Dyke Band in their 2019 Summer Proms concerts!

Stephen Muir
From 2014 to 2018 he was Principal Investigator for the £1.8m AHRC-funded international project Performing the Jewish Archive (ptja.leeds.ac.uk), resulting in performances in Sydney, Cape Town and Prague, and closer to home at London’s Wigmore Hall, and at the UK Parliament’s Holocaust Memorial Day Annual Commemoration.
He has worked extensively in the UK as a singer, percussionist and conductor, including recordings and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. With the Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra under the direction of Peter Holman he has sung the J. S. Bach Evangelist roles on several occasions, and recently appeared as timpanist for the debut of Leeds Baroque’s new hand-crafted kettle drums, alongside trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins. He is Assistant Director of The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds.
Current singers

Sopranos Nicki Sapiro Hannah Peace Alison West Sarah Wickham |
Altos Ruth Aldred Emily Beringer Connie Reif Joy Sutcliffe Ruth Taylor |
Tenors Martin Barry Sam Hubbard Steve Muir Chris Trenholme |
Basses Stuart O’Hara Ben Palmer Andrew Tawn Robert Webb |