{"id":78,"date":"2012-08-12T22:37:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T21:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:10:54","slug":"musical-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/?page_id=78","title":{"rendered":"Musical Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musical Director: Marion Maxey BEM<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marion studied singing in London under Jean Austin-Dobson. She has been working successfully with local choirs since 2001 and was a Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year finalist in 2006. Marion is passionate about helping people to gain confidence and self-esteem through making music and in particular from a love of choral singing.\u00a0 Having worked in several Hampshire schools she is currently the music teacher at Romsey Abbey Primary School.\u00a0 In 2014 she became the musical director of the Romsey Male Voice Choir<\/a> and in 2015 started Romsey Voices<\/a> \u2013 an adult choir for mixed voices which now has 75 members.\u00a0 In 2016 she and Chris started a Romsey Youth Children\u2019s Choir to form a feeder choir of junior school age singers.\u00a0 In 2026 Marion was recognised in the King’s New Year’s Honours list with a British Empire Medal (BEM) for her work with young people and music.<\/p>\n

Email: Marion<\/a><\/p>\n

RYC Accompanist: Chris Maxey<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Although not a musician by profession, Chris has always been keen support his wife\u2019s choir ventures.\u00a0 He accompanies the RYC at rehearsals and performances as well as taking a close role in the running of the choirs.\u00a0 He also accompanies Marion\u2019s school choirs and Romsey Voices.<\/p>\n

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Musical Director: Marion Maxey BEM Marion studied singing in London under Jean Austin-Dobson. She has been working successfully with local choirs since 2001 and was a Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year finalist in 2006. Marion is passionate about helping people to gain confidence and self-esteem through making music and in particular from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Dvf3-1g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13219,"href":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/13219"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romseyyouthchoir.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}