We are delighted to have Dorian Kelly as our Musical Director, who joined us in September 2018.

 

Dorian was educated at Reading Grammar School and went on to study trumpet and piano at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, followed by Trinity College of Music. After leaving college he worked as an instrumental music teacher and a professional freelance trumpet player, with performance credits including Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Neil Diamond, Jamie Cullum, The Temptations, and The Drifters, at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, The Festival Hall & the Glastonbury Festival.

In 2005 Dorian relocated to Yorkshire and switched his attention to composition. Since then he has composed and recorded the music for over 30 short films, animations and documentaries and has had over 250 media music tracks published, resulting in international broadcast usage on the following channels – Sky 1, Sky 2, Netflix, BBC2, Amazon Prime, ITV2, ITVBe, Discovery Channel, Lion TV, Living TV, Access Hollywood, Sky Go, Apple Music, Now TV, EDGEsport, The History Channel, Travel Channel, Recipe TV, E! News Live, E! News Daily, E! Entertainment and BBC radio.

In 2010 Dorian returned to studying and completed an ALCM (Composition) in 2011, followed by an LLCM (Composition) in 2012, as an external student with the London College of Music. During this time Dorian composed numerous choral works (SATB, SSA & TTBB) and ensemble arrangements, which are published on his own web site www.modalmusic.co.uk

In May 2024 he won the UK Composer category at the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival with his composition ‘ Row Brothers, Row’.

He was the musical director for Chapel-en-le-Frith Ladies Choir for seven years and the Halifax Cube Choir for over two years. Currently, he is the musical director of The Oldham Choir, Saddleworth Male Voice Choir, New Mill Male Voice Choir, and Saddleworth Sing for Pleasure Choir. He also works as an examiner for Trinity College London (on the Rock & Pop Syllabus) and Pearson Edexcel (for A2 Music Technology).