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Barrie Cooper

Matthew Sharp

Choir Principals

Musical Director - Barrie Cooper   L.R.S.M.

Barrie had his first piano lesson over 50 years ago at Marling School in Stroud.  After gaining a degree in French at Reading University, he embarked on a career in teaching in Lincolnshire.  During  the next 30 years he was accompanist and occasional conductor of two choirs and MD of an Amateur Operatic Society, as well as being official accompanist at three music festivals in East Yorkshire.  

After retirement he returned to Gloucestershire where he is accompanist for another local choir, as well as being Musical Director of this choir.   He has made numerous choral arrangements and composed two major works for mixed choirs.  He now regularly arranges pieces for performance by Dursley Male Voice Choir. 

Barrie has an outstanding record of success in competitions and recently at the Cheltenham Festival achieved the unprecedented accolade of winning all five open pianoforte classes performing a wide range of music. There were seven to ten entries for each category and the result has been his long-held ambition for the Festival.

​Principal Accompanist and Deputy Musical Director- Matthew Sharp

Matthew is an extremely accomplished pianist who graduated from Cardiff University in 2015 with a first class music degree. He now works as a private piano teacher and music coach in Stroud. In addition to this he works on a peripatetic basis in schools around Gloucestershire, including Wycliffe and the Crypt amongst others. He has previously served as the accompanist for Stroud Light Music Choir and, before that, various university choirs.

He is organist and choirmaster at Lower Cam and Coaley parish churches, where he arranges music for performance on a weekly basis and also gives occasional concerts. As a keen performer, Matthew works a a pianist for weddings and other private events. ​​​​

Choir Contacts

​ Chairman:                   Bryan Jones
Treasurer:                   Keith Tibbitts
Secretary                   Derek Fletcher   -    Secretary@DursleyMaleChoir.org.uk - Tel: 01454 294668 
Concert Secretary:      Lawrence Bryant  -  Engagements@DursleyMaleChoir.org.uk - Tel: 01453 890195
Friends Coordinator:  Graeme Cook -         Friends@DursleyMaleChoir.org.uk    
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President

David Hand is our President

David has supported the choir strongly through many years in furthering the goals of the choir and we look forward to a long association with him...