Andrew Bruce is the Director of Music. He studied music at Middlesex University completing his MA there in 2003. He has recently been awarded an Honary ARSCM for his services to Church Music particularly in recognition of his work on Royal School of Church Music courses.
Andrew says, 'I am proud of what we have here at Stortford. Facilities are excellent and there is plenty of encouragement and help for pupils to perform good music to a high standard'. In Andrew's spare time he directs the Harlow Symphony Orchestra. and, when he is not directing music, his other loves include Information Technology and golf.
Helen Sheehan -
Assistant Director of Music
Helen taught music in
Ireland for many years. She has conducted several
amateur and youth orchestras, including the Cork
Symphony Orchestra and the Galway Youth Orchestra,
who received several national awards under her
direction. She also directed the National
Children’s Choir and an adult choir who have been
very successful in competition and in televised
performances.
Before joining the BSC staff, she worked in the
arts sector as a publicist and administrator, most
recently with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Iago Núñez was born in Ribeira, Spain, and developed his studies in Santiago and Madrid before moving to London where he enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There he obtained a Baccalaureate of Music, a Postgraduate Diploma and a Master of Music whilst studying with the prestigious professors Peter Bithell and Caroline Palmer.
He has participated in a series of chamber music recitals in Stockholm, Upsala and Skeleftea (Sweden), and in Citá Sant’Angelo (Italy) in addition to solo recitals in London and Spain. He has taken part in the Britten festival and Debussy festival, organized by the Guildhall School. Also in the Messiaen festival and Mark Anthony Turnage Festival organised by the BBC at the Barbican Centre. Iago has devised several concerts dedicated to and South American music at the Canning House and St James’ Piccadilly. He was the winner of the VI Ciclo de Jóvenes Intérpretes in Spain and has recently performed with the Galicia Symphony Orchestra in A Coruña.
Belinda Aitken -
Junior School Music Teacher
Belinda Studied Music at Kingston University and went on to train as a Specialist Secondary School Music Teacher. She was Head of Music at Surrey School, before moving to Bishop’s Stortford and becoming Head of Music at a local school. Throughout this time, she has also taught the piano. Belinda currently teaches class music to Pre-Prep year 2, Shell and form I and runs the Shell/Form I choir. She also teaches piano lessons, both at School and privately.
Eleni was born in Athens and
started playing the piano at the age of 9 with Kate
Trulli at the Athens National Conservatory. She
graduated in 1995 with a unanimous First Prize. At
that time Eleni was also studying Greek Literature
(Linguistics) at the National Republic University
of Athens.
Studying organ music with Nicolas Kynaston at the
Royal Academy of Music since 2002, Eleni graduated
from the Postgraduate Performance Course in 2004
with distinction and also studied with David
Titterington at the same Academy for one additional
year (2004-2005) She is also studying privately
with Johannes Geffert, Head of Church Music Studies
at the Cologne Hochschule.
Eleni
has performed as a soloist at the Athens Concert
Hall, Bonn-Beuel. Dusseldorf, Himmerod Abbey
(Germany), All Souls Langham Place, Westminster
Cathedral, Bath Abbey, Huddersfield Town Hall,
Cambridge Festival, St. Dominic’s Priory,
Ciuntadella Cathedral (Menorca), Temple de Foyer
(Paris), Bristol Cathedral. York Minster.
In 2003 Eleni has been awarded a scholarship from
the Alexander S.Onassis Scholarship Foundation. In
2004 she was awarded the “Margaret and Sydney
Lovett Organ Prize” and also the “United Music
Publishers Ensemble Prize. In 2005 Eleni
participated in a joint recording project with the
Royal Academy of Music and the Southwark and South
London Organ Society, playing at the Royal Festival
Hall.
Until July 2007 she was
Organist-in-Residence at Tonbridge School,
Tonbridge.
Since September she took over as an Organist –in
Residence at Bilton Grange School, Rugby and also
as a piano and organ teacher at Rugby
School.
