Katherine Walker

Director of Music

Katherine Walker started her own choral journey singing as a teenager with the Berkshire Youth Choir. She went on to study music at Exeter University, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in singing at the Royal Academy of Music. She sang as a regular member of the choir of the Chapels Royal in the Tower of London and has performed in cathedrals and Tudor houses across the country with the Renaissance Singers of London and the early music chamber choir Cantores. Katherine was a recipient of the Thames Valley Young Musician award, which led to a long association as soloist for Woodstock Music Society. As a soloist she has performed with choirs across the UK and at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Katherine has always enjoyed encouraging others to sing, setting up The Oasis Community Choir and conducting children’s choirs for the music education publishing company Out of the Ark. She worked on the Live Music Now! scheme, giving concerts in special needs schools and in hospitals and nursing homes for the charity Music in Hospitals. She currently teaches singing at Guildford High School and Holme Grange School.