Gareth Malone studied both drama at the University of East Anglia and singing at the Royal Academy of Music with Janice Chapman and Jonathan Papp. Gareth now combines a busy singing career with his education work. He was the Edward Heath Assistant Animateur to the London Symphony Orchestra’s Discovery programme for two years and now runs their two choirs, the Community Choir and Youth Choir. He just finished making the third series of the BBC2 BAFTA award winning documentary 'The Choir', due to be screened in the autumn of this year. Recent highlights of his career include a family concert for City of London Sinfonia, Choir Master for New London Children’s Choir for Mahler 8 under Daniele Gatti (RPO), working as assistant conductor, preparing a chorus of professional music theatre singers for Marin Alsop on Bernstein’s Mass (LSO), singing the Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion at Bristol Cathedral, singing under the composer in Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man (BBC Concert Orchestra), performing a new work as part of the Peter Maxwell-Davis Festival for the Royal Academy of Music and the South Bank Centre, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings and Discover Schumann (LSO Discovery Lunchtime concerts), The Wigmore Hall Lieder Project 2005 and LSO Youth Choir with the LSO and Dave Brubeck at Christmas 2005. He continues to work for many of the major companies in the country including the Royal Opera House, the Philharmonia, English National Opera Baylis programme, Glyndebourne, and of course the South Oxhey Choirs.