ED JONES became the Society's Musical Director in September 2011. At the same time he left his teaching post in the music department at Reed's School, Cobham, to become Assistant Director of Music and Head of Academic Music at Christ's Hospital School, Horsham. His background includes a period as a chorister at St John's College, Cambridge, before going on to complete his schooling at Eton College. From Eton he gained an Academical Clerkship at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Since graduating, Edward has combined his teaching in schools with a freelance singing career. He was worked for various London church choirs and also with Philharmonia Voices, MM Voices, Tenebrae and Ludus Baroque. In addition, he has appeared as a soloist in Beethoven's Choral Symphony, Bach's Johannes Passion, Duruflé's Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah and Jephtha as well as Elgar's Coronation Ode and Bach's Mathäus Passion in Llandaff Cathedral.

Tony Wenman, the Society's chairman, trained as a teacher at Winchester, where he sang regularly in the cathedral choir. He still appreciates any opportunity to sing with visiting choirs in cathedrals. For many years he has been organist at the United Reformed Church in Kingston upon Thames.

His professional career included some years as head of a primary school before becoming a school inspector in a South London education authority. He worked for some time as an OFSTED inspector, but now, in retirement, he is involved in promoting critical thinking in religious and spiritual education at King's College, London, where, in 2006, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree.

Jim Forrest is the Treasurer of CCS. He has been singing as a tenor with Claygate Choral Society since 1997 and has enjoyed every minute of it. Fifty years ago he sang in his school choir in Westminster Abbey which developed his love of church music and the Forrest fire has been rekindled by coming to Claygate and being part of such a good local choir. He became Treasurer of CCS in 2007.

In his professional life Jim has been a science teacher and deputy headteacher and he is now an educational consultant. Besides music, his interests include his family (human and feline), meteorology, astronomy and sport, in particular running around the beautiful Claygate countryside.