Tom Edney
Tom is now becoming an established conductor and singer across the North East. Originally from Newcastle, Tom very quickly took to conducting and pursued this specialism as part of his undergraduate degree at Newcastle University. Since then, Tom has studied at the University of Cambridge, where he was tutored by Stephen Layton and Ben Parry, among others, and during his master’s programme he sang with King’s College Chapel Choir. Further training has been undertaken through national singing charity Sing for Pleasure.
More recently, Tom has worked with the choirs of St Chad’s College, Durham University, completed an orchestration of Stanford’s anthem ‘For Lo I Raise Up’ for Winchester College Chapel Choir and the London Mozart Players, and written an original composition, The Crucifixion, reimagining Stainer’s famous choral work, for Kennington Choirs, Oxford, premièred in February 2024. He is currently in the second year of his PhD study at the Royal College of Music, where he is researching Herbert Howells’s Stabat Mater.
Tom has a passion for igniting a love of singing in all. This is reflected in an eclectic mix of engagements that include the roles of conductor of Newcastle Youth Choir and artistic director of professional north-east octet Vox Populi, which he founded in 2021. Tom has taken part in the recording of Howells’ Cello Concerto, and his English Mass with King’s College Chapel Choir, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Britten’s War Requiem with the Gabrieli Consort. He has participated in workshops with Voces8, David Hurley, Simon Halsey and Andrew Nethsingha.
