Jeremy Patterson          Hon FBC, Birmingham Festival Choral Society - Music Director 
On graduating from the former Birmingham School of Music, Jeremy taught in both primary and secondary schools before his appointment as a Senior Lecturer in Music Education at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic, being Course Director of the Postgraduate as well as In-Service courses, until he took early retirement in 1986. 

Jeremy was a violin/viola player in the Midland Youth Orchestra, and performed as a professional free-lance player in orchestras and Chamber Music groups. 
He conducted the Bromsgrove String Orchestra from 1966 to 1972 during which time his Bromsgrove Festival concerts became noteworthy for the inclusion of 20th century music. 

Jeremy has trained and conducted a wide variety of choirs over a period of 40 years. 
He was appointed Music Director of Birmingham Festival Choral Society in 1969, and throughout the past thirty-one years he has developed the BFCS historic policy in promoting contemporary music. 
He has premiered thirteen works by a number of British composers, of which nine were commissioned by him, and he has given the second and third performances of new music by, for example, BFCS Patrons John Joubert and Elis Pehkonen.

In addition to his work for BFCS, Jeremy adjudicates regionally and nationally for Music for Youth, and throughout the UK for every Sainsbury's Choir of the Year Competition since it began in 1984.
For many years Jeremy was an 'A' Level Music Examiner for the 'Performing' module.

In 1993 the University of Central England in Birmingham conferred upon him the honorary award of Fellowship of Birmingham Conservatoire in recognition of his services to music.

Geoffrey Weaver

Geoffrey Weaver, the founder of Wyre Forest Young Voices, has been the Musical Director of the Kidderminster Choral Society since 1987.

After spending seven years in Hong Kong with the Church Missionary Society, as a teacher and conductor, he was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Bradford Cathedral in 1982. From 1986 he was a tutor at the Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham, and he is now the Director of Outreach with the Royal School of Church Music (which takes him all over the country). In 1991 he undertook teaching tours in the Philippines and Nigeria; in 1992 he was the Director of Music at the Conference of European Churches in Prague, and he has edited two volumes of music from the World Church.

In 1996 he directed the music for an important Worcester Diocesan celebration, and in 1998 he directed the music at the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury. In 1999, apart from directing the Society in its Centenary year, he undertook teaching tours in Australia, the USA, Canada and Switzerland.

Tim Morris

Tim Morris, the Town Hall Organist, studied the organ at Bromsgrove School and later at St. George's Church, Kidderminster, under Harold Evers, the then Borough Organist. He was appointed assistant organist at St. George's in 1970 and Director of Music in 1976.

In 1980 he was appointed organist to the WFDC and organist of Kidderminster Town Hall. As well as giving recitals all over the country, Tim has played with local orchestras including the CBSO and the Wyre Forest Symphony Orchestra, and has broadcast on both TV and radio.

He is actively involved in the promotion of music in worship, being a member of the Worcestershire Church Music Committee and an area representative for the Royal School of Church Music.