Following the retirement of Dr F.E.Burroughes due to ill health, Charles Slade has been appointed as Musical Director of ADCS. His first duties will be to prepare singers for a workshop performance of Mozart's Requiem, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner on Saturday 19th June 2010.
July 2008: St Mary's Parish Church, Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset.
Continuing his long-standing involvement in church music, Charles has been appointed as Director of Music at St Mary's, Bishop's Lydeard. The small mixed choir sings at the weekly Eucharist services and at other occasional services within the joint benefice. New singers with an interest in maintaining the traditions of Anglican parish church music (including chanted psalms and canticles and weekly anthems) are welcome and are invited to contact Charles by e-mail in the first instance
Loughborough University Choir (conducted by Charles Slade, piano accompanist Eleonora Babitsky) performing "As with gladness" (Slade), December 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xDySUtttvw
BBC Radio Nottingham pantomime, 2007: chorus rehearsal. At least two of them are watching the conductor.
BBC Radio Nottingham pantomime, 2007: The expression is more serious than the guitar playing!
A chorister at All Saints, Belvedere, Kent - age 10
The Sachem Piano Trio - Southwell Minster Great Hall, Nottinghamshire, 17th July 2005. Emma Blanco, violin; Charles Slade, piano; Sarah Huson, cello. At the end of a very warm evening recital.
Broadcasting for BBC Radio Nottingham, April 2003.
Conducting joint concert in Grotzingen. Nottingham Bluecoat School Choir with Grotzingen Youth Band.
The Nottingham Bluecoat School Choir Tour: Bad Salzig, Germany, 2002
The Nottingham Bluecoat School Choir, November 2003
Never mind the choir, conduct the audience! The Nottingham Bluecoat School Choir in concert in the Salle Josephine at Strasbourg's Orangerie Gardens.
Solo floor polisher with Nottingham Symphonic Winds. As always, watching the conductor closely. Dyson duettists are Jo Heffernan and Robert Steadman.
(above) Reporting for BBC Radio Nottingham. A well-earned rest after taking part in the Fun Run at the 1999 Robin Hood Marathon.
(below) In action (!) at the studios of 10Radio. Community radio for the ten parishes area of Somerset, UK (post-code TA4 2JP for those who like to zoom in on aerial images!)
Continuing his long-standing involvement in church music, Charles has been appointed as Director of Music at St Mary's, Bishop's Lydeard. The small mixed choir sings at the weekly Eucharist services and at other occasional services within the joint benefice. New singers with an interest in maintaining the traditions of Anglican parish church music (including chanted psalms and canticles and weekly anthems) are welcome and are invited to contact Charles by e-mail in the first instance
