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Clive Sawers I am an Engineer by profession but have had a great love of music as long as I can remember. I have sung in many choirs and operatic societies and started to conduct them in the 1970s. I started playing hymns at a small modern church near Reading, and taught myself to play the organ in 1982 when I suddenly found myself in demand at a village church in Berkshire. My conducting skills meant that I developed a strong rhythmic approach to my playing, leading rather than accompanying the singing.

I have written a small number of hymns and carols and also some tunes that might be useful in updating those hymns where the words might be regarded as timeless but the standard tune has passed its "sell-by" date. I have derived most of the complete settings of hymns and worship songs that feature in The Complete Hymn.

I am now based in Devon, UK and play regularly at three churches in the parish of Newton Abbot.


The Late Richard Hickox.

I probably learnt some of my
conducting skills from Richard who conducted 
the Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
I sang in the chorus for three seasons 1968-1970.

Years later I watched him conduct a Prom concert and 
immediately recognised his style!

It was one of the greatest compliments ever paid to me when several members of my orchestra gathered round me during an interval mid-performance to tell me that they found my conducting to be most professional.

 

 
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