The Singers
We love to sing, but that's not all...
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Find out more about those of us that make up Corra Sound and read about our unique musical journeys as musicians, super mums, professionals and more below:
Amy Bebbington
​As founder and director of Corra Sound, Amy is a passionate advocate for choral singing and conductor training, and is sought after for her engaging teaching style and wealth of choral pedagogical experience. After achieving her Master’s Degree in piano performance, she combined her love of singing, leadership and movement by gaining a Doctorate in choral conducting (in America).
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Now, Amy is the Director of Training for the Association of British Choral Directors, co-founder of the London International Choral Conducting Competition, founding member and Ambassador of the International Choral Conducting Federation and co-creator of Wavelength, an organisation designed to champion, educate and support women in choral leadership.
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Amy is a published composer, and in great demand as a choral director, clinician, teacher trainer, adjudicator and mentor. When not conducting, Amy can often be found walking her labrador in the woods, dancing or cycling!
Catherine Beddison
An expert in music education and performance, Catherine is renowned for delivering high standards, while enthusing children and encouraging them to fully develop their musical skills.
She is Deputy Head (Operational) at Cranleigh School, championing the creative arts subjects, and teaches within the ‘Cranleigh Music 7-18’ Music Department. Catherine is also a trustee for Sing for Pleasure; a choral charity with a mission of inspiring better singing across the country.
With a multitude of skills under her belt, Catherine also works as a freelance conductor, adjudicator, consultant, lecturer and singer, presenting at the MMA Conference, the Leith Hill Music Festival and the Music Education Expo. She has conducted the Harlequin Chamber Choir, Cranleigh Prep School Chamber Choir, Farnham Youth Training Choir and Cranleigh Choral Society, also serving as a senior conducting tutor for Sing for Pleasure.
Lynda Benn
Having trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as a classical soprano, Lynda went on to study opera at the Advanced Performers’ Studio in Hammersmith.
She is the founder of Big Bang Music and More, a studio dedicated to bringing high quality arts education to all. Lynda enjoys a busy life in Carshalton, Surrey, where she teaches voice, piano, and musicianship.
Delighted to be part of the wonderful Corra Sound, Lynda is determined to explore the world of female composers alongside such talented and imaginative ladies. Singing has always been a source of great joy and she is looking forward to further adventures as she dips her toe back in after a break rearing her two little children! ​
Katherine Bond Smith
Katherine feels privileged to be part of the unity of hearts, minds and voices that is Corra Sound. Her love of singing began with raucous sing-alongs and ticketed ‘shows’ in her childhood home, and continued through her undergraduate music degree at Cardiff University, postgraduate vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music and teacher training at Reading University.
She has enjoyed a varied solo career, including appearances at the Aldeburgh Festival, Opera Holland Park and Garsington Opera, as well as leading music workshops, conducting choirs and teaching.
Katherine took a break from her role as Head of Music in a girls’ secondary school to raise her young children, and now delights in coaching vocal students at independent schools in Berkshire and Surrey.
Emily Christian
Emily was a child who was always singing something, annoying her classmates with whatever song was in her head or waking up the neighbours with morning flute practise. However, when she first started singing with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and also became a chorister at Rochester Cathedral, it became clear that choral music was going to be her greatest joy.
After spending 2 years at The Purcell School for Young Musicians, Emily studied music at Royal Holloway University where she also held a choral scholarship in the chapel choir. It was at university that she also began her conducting journey with the Jane Holloway Choir.
Now living in Hampshire, Emily is working as a singer, conductor and workshop leader. She feels very lucky to be singing alongside the wonderful and inspiring women in Corra Sound.
Rae Evans
Rae grew up in a family of musicians, where singing was always at the core. She completed her master’s in contemporary vocal performance in Manchester and spent ten years there honing her songwriting and performance.
Since then, music has taken her all over the world; performing roles such as Carmen in France, her own songs and shows on the stage in New York and touring all over Europe and the UK.
As a composer and songwriter, singing music by other women has a particular resonance for Rae. “It’s important that the creative voice of women is shared and celebrated,” she says. “I love the music that Amy brings to our choir, opening my ears to new composers!”
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Cindy Frostick
Growing up in a family of keen singers, Cindy learned to sing long before she could talk. She took up the violin at the age of four, the flute and bassoon a few years later, but it was singing that captured her heart.
She now juggles work and family life while singing in several choral groups, not least Corra Sound. Cindy is particularly passionate about the positive influence of music on children, the elderly and vulnerable.
Despite a career in communications in the charity sector, she would rather sing than speak and, much to the embarrassment of her three boys, is highly likely to do so whenever their friends drop around. Cindy is a keen runner and can be found heading up the hill with her dog most mornings.
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Lindsay Jamieson
Lindsay’s passion for singing was evident from an early age. As a toddler, there is video evidence of her pausing a rendition of Once in Royal, then re-starting a tone higher and 4 times louder, just because a cousin dared to joined in with her. Thankfully, she now far prefers singing in the company of others!
Choral singing has been a regular feature in Lindsay’s life, including as a junior chorister growing up then as a scholar at St Barnabas’ Cathedral, Nottingham, while studying for an MA in Music Theory and Analysis. During this time she also dabbled in choral conducting and worked with a range of chamber and community choirs. She now works as a Civil Servant and pursues singing enthusiastically as a hobby, joining choirs whenever life takes her, from London to Brussels to Guildford and the surrounding area.
Emily Christian
Emily was a child who was always singing something, annoying her classmates with whatever song was in her head or waking up the neighbours with morning flute practise. However, when she first started singing with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and also became a chorister at Rochester Cathedral, it became clear that choral music was going to be her greatest joy.
After spending 2 years at The Purcell School for Young Musicians, Emily studied music at Royal Holloway University where she also held a choral scholarship in the chapel choir. It was at university that she also began her conducting journey with the Jane Holloway Choir.
Now living in Hampshire, Emily is working as a singer, conductor and workshop leader. She feels very lucky to be singing alongside the wonderful and inspiring women in Corra Sound.
Alice Wratten
A keen singer from the outset, Alice joined her local children’s choir at the age of 10, before singing with the Hampshire County Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir.
While taking a social sciences degree, she took up private singing lessons and continued her studies with a post-graduate certificate in vocal performance in Birmingham, while singing with Ex Cathedra. This led on to a year at the Kodály Institute in Hungary, where she studied vocal pedagogy. Alice is also an accomplished conductor.
Now Alice works as a singing teacher in her home county of Hampshire, where she lives with her two children. She is delighted to be singing choral music again and to have been invited to join the "generous and talented group of women” in Corra Sound.
Camilla Jeppeson
Camilla maintains a busy schedule as a professional singer, a vocal animateur, a teacher of voice and piano, a choral leader and an accompanist. She is an advocate of young musicians and has a passion for sharing the joy of music. Working with Grange Park Opera’s vocal outreach project, Primary Robins, Camilla provides weekly singing workshops to schools that have little exposure to music. Also passionate about vocal health, Camilla has recently qualified as a Vocal Health First Aider.
After studying as a pianist, Camilla went on to train in London as a classical singer. She has gone on to sing all across Europe, including roles at opera houses in Italy, France, Sardinia and venues closer to home such as The Ritz, Royal Albert Hall and Westminster Abbey.
Female composers have always been a a topic close to Camilla’s heart - her final degree recital consisted entirely of music composed by women. It is such a pleasure to be able to perform and celebrate more music written by and for women.
Caroline Page
Caroline’s love of music surfaced when she demanded piano and violin lessons at age 4. She performed Mendelssohn’s first piano concerto at 14 and Kabalevsky’s violin concerto at 17 and she knew that she wanted to be a professional musician. As a first-year music student at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, Caroline auditioned for the Chapel Choir. She was awarded a choral scholarship and hasn’t stopped singing since!
On graduating, Caroline turned down her places at Music College and went to University College, Durham University to obtain her MA in Musicology. She then trained and qualified as a solicitor and specialised in corporate tax law at a leading global law firm. That 14-year “distraction” in law over, Caroline is now in demand as a collaborative pianist working with children and professionals, instrumentalists, singers and choirs.
Singing is one of the great pleasures in Caroline’s life and singing with Corra Sound always leaves her wanting more!
Emily Christian
Emily was a child who was always singing something, annoying her classmates with whatever song was in her head or waking up the neighbours with morning flute practise. However, when she first started singing with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and also became a chorister at Rochester Cathedral, it became clear that choral music was going to be her greatest joy.
After spending 2 years at The Purcell School for Young Musicians, Emily studied music at Royal Holloway University where she also held a choral scholarship in the chapel choir. It was at university that she also began her conducting journey with the Jane Holloway Choir.
Now living in Hampshire, Emily is working as a singer, conductor and workshop leader. She feels very lucky to be singing alongside the wonderful and inspiring women in Corra Sound.
Alice Wratten
A keen singer from the outset, Alice joined her local children’s choir at the age of 10, before singing with the Hampshire County Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir.
While taking a social sciences degree, she took up private singing lessons and continued her studies with a post-graduate certificate in vocal performance in Birmingham, while singing with Ex Cathedra. This led on to a year at the Kodály Institute in Hungary, where she studied vocal pedagogy. Alice is also an accomplished conductor.
Now Alice works as a singing teacher in her home county of Hampshire, where she lives with her two children. She is delighted to be singing choral music again and to have been invited to join the "generous and talented group of women” in Corra Sound.
Caroline Pearce
Caroline loves nothing more than encouraging those who say they are not musical to experience the satisfaction of discovering that they can both sing and perform, and to feel the joy that comes from singing with others.
Having competed as a solo pianist in her youth, Caroline played concertos, sang in youth opera groups and held the position of church organist and choirmaster all before she was 18. After graduating from Nottingham University with a music degree, she pivoted into a successful career in HR, while continuing to teach, direct musical productions and sing with Choros Amici - winners of Sainsbury's BBC Choir of the Year. Caroline is sought out as a piano teacher and for her ability to bring community choirs together. She is director of the inclusive Surrey Arts county choir for students with additional needs, the Just So Singers and Together at Home - a creative online ensemble formed during the pandemic.
Caroline relishes spending time with the like-minded women of Corra Sound, who take time out of busy careers and family lives to do what they love best. She is Mum to three grown up boys and married to Mike who also loves to sing!
Joanna Sleight
Joanna inherited a love of singing from her mother, and grew up singing around the piano with her sisters. After focussing on Musical Theatre and opera as a teen, she won a choral scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, and studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, followed by Opera and Musical Theatre studies with English National Opera Baylis.
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She particularly loves recording projects and features on the soundtrack of various films, TV and theatre productions. Joanna has worked with the experimental theatre company Experience Vocal Dance, combining contemporary dance with opera and has been fortunate to premiere many new works by contemporary composers. She has recently started seeking out underperformed song repertoire written by women, and is so excited to be working with Corra Sound on a similar celebration of women’s choral works.
Joanna also writes music herself and is currently working on her second song cycle. When she is not singing or producing music videos, she teaches the Alexander Technique and is a taxi-driver to her two children!
Emily Christian
Emily was a child who was always singing something, annoying her classmates with whatever song was in her head or waking up the neighbours with morning flute practise. However, when she first started singing with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and also became a chorister at Rochester Cathedral, it became clear that choral music was going to be her greatest joy.
After spending 2 years at The Purcell School for Young Musicians, Emily studied music at Royal Holloway University where she also held a choral scholarship in the chapel choir. It was at university that she also began her conducting journey with the Jane Holloway Choir.
Now living in Hampshire, Emily is working as a singer, conductor and workshop leader. She feels very lucky to be singing alongside the wonderful and inspiring women in Corra Sound.
Alice Wratten
A keen singer from the outset, Alice joined her local children’s choir at the age of 10, before singing with the Hampshire County Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir.
While taking a social sciences degree, she took up private singing lessons and continued her studies with a post-graduate certificate in vocal performance in Birmingham, while singing with Ex Cathedra. This led on to a year at the Kodály Institute in Hungary, where she studied vocal pedagogy. Alice is also an accomplished conductor.
Now Alice works as a singing teacher in her home county of Hampshire, where she lives with her two children. She is delighted to be singing choral music again and to have been invited to join the "generous and talented group of women” in Corra Sound.
Sarah Stroh
Camilla maintains a busy schedule as a professional singer, a vocal animateur, a teacher of voice and piano, a choral leader and an accompanist. She is an advocate of young musicians and has a passion for sharing the joy of music. Working with Grange Park Opera’s vocal outreach project, Primary Robins, Camilla provides weekly singing workshops to schools that have little exposure to music. Also passionate about vocal health, Camilla has recently qualified as a Vocal Health First Aider.
After studying as a pianist, Camilla went on to train in London as a classical singer. She has gone on to sing all across Europe, including roles at opera houses in Italy, France, Sardinia and venues closer to home such as The Ritz, Royal Albert Hall and Westminster Abbey.
Female composers have always been a a topic close to Camilla’s heart - her final degree recital consisted entirely of music composed by women. It is such a pleasure to be able to perform and celebrate more music written by and for women.
Helen Styles
Born into a musical family, Helen started the violin aged four in Adelaide, South Australia. Once back in the UK, she was awarded a choral scholarship to Christ’s College Cambridge where she studied veterinary medicine. She qualified and worked as a vet (with a particular interest in cats), but music called her back and she has been making her living as a musician since 2010.
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As a singer, she has established herself as a performer and versatile choral conductor, specialising in working with community choirs, alongside directing regular “Come and Sing” workshops. She directs Twyford Singers and VetChoir UK. She is a qualified Suzuki violin and viola teacher, director of Singing Strings workshop and regularly teaches on string courses around the UK.
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Over the lockdowns of 2020-2021, Helen and her children started Sing a Song a Day – a live online singing session, which gained a worldwide audience and was commended by the Royal Philharmonic Society for their Inspiration Award. Helen believes passionately that music is for everyone: you are never too young or old to be part of the musical community.
Emily Christian
Emily was a child who was always singing something, annoying her classmates with whatever song was in her head or waking up the neighbours with morning flute practise. However, when she first started singing with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and also became a chorister at Rochester Cathedral, it became clear that choral music was going to be her greatest joy.
After spending 2 years at The Purcell School for Young Musicians, Emily studied music at Royal Holloway University where she also held a choral scholarship in the chapel choir. It was at university that she also began her conducting journey with the Jane Holloway Choir.
Now living in Hampshire, Emily is working as a singer, conductor and workshop leader. She feels very lucky to be singing alongside the wonderful and inspiring women in Corra Sound.
Alice Wratten
A keen singer from the outset, Alice joined her local children’s choir at the age of 10, before singing with the Hampshire County Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir.
While taking a social sciences degree, she took up private singing lessons and continued her studies with a post-graduate certificate in vocal performance in Birmingham, while singing with Ex Cathedra. This led on to a year at the Kodály Institute in Hungary, where she studied vocal pedagogy. Alice is also an accomplished conductor.
Now Alice works as a singing teacher in her home county of Hampshire, where she lives with her two children. She is delighted to be singing choral music again and to have been invited to join the "generous and talented group of women” in Corra Sound.
Clare Wheeler
Clare has always loved making music, especially when it comes to singing. Growing up in East Africa, she sang in church gospel choirs and theatre productions, before studying at Chethams School of Music where she trained as a violinist and also studied classical voice.
She went on to study jazz composition, jazz and classical voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her singing career has brought her everywhere from La Scala and The Royal Albert Hall to Ronnie Scott’s, and her teaching includes vocal coach and arranger on BBC One’s Pitch Battle Show, to professor of vocal jazz at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
In 2007, Clare started singing with the internationally renowned a cappella group The Swingle Singers, only recently leaving the group to pursue her own career as a singer and composer. She feels that there is something special about the way women write music and approach creativity, and is enthused to be part of a group that is dedicated to exploring and celebrating this further.
Anna Tabbush
Having grown up in a family of folk musicians, Anna started playing fiddle with her family ceilidh band at the age of 15. She studied soprano voice to degree level and gained a degree in Music & Technology from Kingston University, feeding her fascination of traditional music from around the world.
Anna makes her living as a community choir conductor, composer, choral arranger, singer and multi-instrumentalist, also performing in a number of folk bands. Having set up more than 20 community choirs, she runs several choirs across West Sussex and Surrey and coordinates the events SingFest and Spring Sing. She believes passionately that everyone has a birthright to sing and has made it her mission to get people singing their hearts out.
She currently plays fiddle and sings with French dance bands MoltenAmba and Meridian, in a Swedish fiddle/song duet with Rowan Piggott and in her own right as a singer-songwriter.
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Alice Wratten
A keen singer from the outset, Alice joined her local children’s choir at the age of 10, before singing with the Hampshire County Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir.
While taking a social sciences degree, she took up private singing lessons and continued her studies with a post-graduate certificate in vocal performance in Birmingham, while singing with Ex Cathedra. This led on to a year at the Kodály Institute in Hungary, where she studied vocal pedagogy. Alice is also an accomplished conductor.
Now Alice works as a singing teacher in her home county of Hampshire, where she lives with her two children. She is delighted to be singing choral music again and to have been invited to join the "generous and talented group of women” in Corra Sound.
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