Artistic Director
Emma is a freelance musician, educator and workshop leader. She is passionate about the importance of music education, especially singing, and wants to improve access to quality music education for all children. As well as her role as the Artistic Director of Warwickshire Youth Choirs and Warwickshire Sings, Emma is very proud to be the Senior Programme Manager and one the founders of Apollo, a charity which improves mental health and wellbeing through music and the arts. Apollo run performance-based, participatory music projects and bespoke training programmes in partnership with organisations such as Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the NHS. Emma is also a conductor, teacher and repetiteur for a number of organisations and has a wealth of experience in SEND music workshops. She is an accomplished pianist and is a busy chamber musician, playing concerts and raising money for charity. Emma studied music at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where she was also a Senior Choral Exhibitioner.
Operations Director
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Beth has over 25 years experience of administration and marketing in both the corporate and public sector.Beth has spent most of her career since university in marketing communications and organising and managing events in the UK and Europe - from small scale dinners to full scale Awards evenings and conferences for more than 500 attendees. She moved from the corporate world, to music education when she joined Warwickshire Music in 2015. Her time running an office team, managing the membership systems, finance systems, communications external and internal, organising events and recruiting allowed her to build her network and gave her the key skills to bring to the operations and logistical side of the Youth choirs.
Aliyah Wiggins
Hannah is thrilled to have joined the team this year and has thoroughly enjoyed teaching within the program. She is very passionate about music, both from a teaching and performing aspect. Not only does she teach with the Warwickshire Sings program, but she also teaches 121 Musical Theatre and Pop singing. She also works as Head of Music at the ELAN School of Movement, which provides dance and music sensory classes for adults and children with SEND. Hannah has said that if it weren’t for her Head of Music, she wouldn’t be the musician she is today and because of this, she is ensuring she will have the same influence on her students.
Aliyah is a singer songwriter from Birmingham who began her journey as a music leader in 2020. Since then, she has worked with multiple organisations such as; Welsh National Opera as their Vocal Leader Intern, B’Opera, Quench Arts and more, expanding her knowledge and experience along the way. Throughout her career, she has shared her passion and knowledge of singing, creating workshops for all ages, infusing music technology and multiple genres of music.
Aliyah is currently completing her Quench Arts CME course to obtain her Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators accreditation from Trinity Guildhall, as well as her You Are Gold: Gold Arts Award. For her next chapter, she has begun working with Warwickshire Sings to continue expanding on her musical knowledge whilst working within schools delivering sessions!
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