Esther Jones has been Musical Director of the Esterhazy Singers since September 2006.She read music at Oxford University, where she was organ scholar of University College, and studied choral conducting with Patrick Russill and Paul Brough at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where she won the Irene Burcher and Thomas Armstrong prizes. She is currently Open Academy Fellow at the RAM, holds a London Symphony Chorus Conducting Scholarship and is the first Stanley Vann Scholar. She is Director of the RSCM Skills of a Church Musician educational programme and Director of Music at Christ Church, Epsom Common. She conducts several youth and adult choirs in the southeast and is assistant conductor to the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. She is also in demand across the UK as a vocal animateur and workshop leader and sings with Vox Angelica vocal trio.
