April2008 Edition - Hatfield Heath Village Magazine

CHRISTOPHER BAYSTON
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CHRISTOPHER BAYSTON became Musical
Director of the Bishops Stortford Choral Society in
September 2004. Since then the membership has
more than doubled and more than 50 patrons are in
sponsorship of what is now a very lively choir.
In 2000 he moved to Hatfield Heath after 35 years
on the resident music staff of Eton College, during
which he conducted every musical ensemble except
the military band. In his last years there he became
Deputy Director of Music. This period saw Eton’s
music emerge from tentative obscurity to become
one of the school’s most successful and glittering
activities.
Educated as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and
later at the King’s School, Canterbury, he went on to
read music at Christ’s College, Cambridge and to
study as a bass-baritone soloist under Audrey
Langford in London and Gunter Weissenborn at the
Mozarteum, Salzburg. He also became ARCO and
worked as an examiner for the Associated Board for
20 years.
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His approach to choral training is driven by the
insistence that no-one is incapable of learning to
read music and he takes enormous care in the early
stages of preparing a performance to work on