Tim Brown
Course Director
Tim Brown has been associated with the Berwang choral courses for many years, and in 2024 re-created the course as an eight-day singing experience, in which intensive choral singing occurs in a fun, holiday atmosphere.
In a musical career spanning fifty years, Tim has been equally involved in both musical performance and education. Trained at Westminster Abbey and King’s College, Cambridge, he was a founding member of The Scholars vocal ensemble (singing countertenor) before taking up teaching positions that eventually led in 1979 to the Directorship of Music at Clare College, Cambridge University, with whom he gained an international reputation.
​​
He re-founded Cambridge University Chamber Choir and later founded the professional chamber choir English Voices as an opportunity for young professional singers, with performances that included frequent appearances at the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival. More recently, The Academy of English Voices brings the very best amateur singers together with professional musicians for projects requiring larger choruses, leading to critical acclaim in a number of performances in London with the Outcry Ensemble (director James Henshaw).
​
Tim has recently set up the Sizewell Creative Choir, a workplace choir for Sizewell C Nuclear Plant, and works extensively as a choral clinician with amateur choruses in churches, schools and universities around the globe. He is also active as a composer.
David Dunnett
Assistant Course Director
David Dunnett was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and at the Royal Academy of Music. After a time working in America as Director of Chapel Music at the College of Wooster in Ohio, he spent six years at Uppingham School before moving to Winchester Cathedral as Sub-Organist, accompanying their renowned choir for services, concerts, broadcasts, recordings and overseas tours. He assisted David Hill with the Waynflete Singers and is a previous conductor of the Southampton University Chamber Choir and the Winchester Music Club.
Working in a variety of styles, both classical and jazz, he is a regular recitalist and accompanist for singers and instrumentalists on the organ, harpsichord and piano; he features on many recordings as accompanist, as well as conductor and soloist. He is a former conductor of the Norwich Philharmonic Society and part-time lecturer at the University of East Anglia. David recently retired from Norwich Cathedral, where he was Organist for 29 years and also Master of the Music from 1996 to 2007.