Our directors

Tim Peters, director

Tim joined as director in early 2011, fulfilling an ambition to work with a women’s chorus in London. His life has been musical since he learned to play the violin aged 8. Harmony singing and ‘strictly a cappella’ came about later in an officers’ mess of the British Army in Germany, when introduced to the dark art of singing in a group without instruments.

Returning to England, life seemed rather dull without the intoxicating sound of voices singing in harmony. Then an advert mentioned an organisation dedicated to barbershop singing. So began the barbershop obsession, first with the Surrey Fringe and then with the Royal Harmonics in Windsor.

Laura Grant, assistant director

Laura joined London City Singers in January 2011 and sings lead. She is relatively new to barbershop but is enjoying the challenge of assisting with musical direction. She spends most of her time outside work doing arty stuff - singing soprano in the Royal Choral Society and being the Assistant Director of the Younger Generation Theatre Group in Croydon.