Deilia Meehan
DELIA MEEHAN has been the Conductor and Musical
Director of the Chipperfield Choral Society since 1991. On completing her
studies at the Royal Academy of Music she returned to teach the oboe on the
Junior Exhibitioners’ Course and also taught at Reading University and the Royal
Holloway College (University of London).Delia taught full-time at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Elstree.
Throughout her teaching career Delia has worked in close association with both
the Berkshire and Hertfordshire youth orchestras and wind bands. She is
currently the Senior Instrumental Tutor and Woodwind Coach with the English
Schools’ Orchestra, which undertook a tour of Australia during the summer of
2003 in conjunction with the Australian Youth Choir, giving concerts in
Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
As a member of the panel of examiners for the Associated Board of the Royal
Schools of Music Delia has had the opportunity to travel to Malaysia and the Far
East in this capacity. She was invited to adjudicate at the Kota Kinabalu Music
Festival in Sabah, Borneo in August 2005 and 2006 and has been invited to do so
again in the summer of 2007. She has also been invited to adjudicate at the
inaugural festival in Kuala Lumpar in 2007.
Delia is a regular adjudicator in this country, especially locally at the
Chesham Festival of Music and the Three Rivers Young Musician of the Year
competition, which takes place each summer.
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