NEIL FERRIS will conduct the choir in 2007 as Paul Spicer is on sabatical leave. Neil is furtunate to have benefited from the expertise of Paul at the RCM where he was awarded a Master's degree in Performance Studies. He is much in demand as a choral conductor and workshop leader; he is a choir trainer at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and Music Director of the Epworth Choir (Surrey) and Concordia Voices (Richmond). He is assistant conductor of the award-winning Joyful Company of Singers and is guest conductor of the the chorus Fliarmonia Arad, Romania. In April 2006 he was appointed the new Music Director of Cardiff Polyphonic Choir.