Our Accompanist - Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After gaining a performer's diploma, she continued to study with Franz Reizenstein and Benjamin Kaplan.
She studied singing with Maureen Lehane and April Cantelo, and has toured widely as a singer, mainly in the early music scene, with the Taverner Choir with whom she has made many recordings and broadcasts. Jane has also been the soprano soloist in many oratorios, including singing all the soprano solos in Handel's "L’Allegro ed il Penseroso".
She has also formed and conducted her own groups: The Seymour Singers, to perform small scale works such as 'The Peasant Cantata' and English folk songs, whose concerts raised funds for the Chorus: and an adult education choir, called 'Sing for Joy': a ladies choir based in Wallingford.
For several years she performed regularly as the pianist with a Chamber Music group.
Her recent and current activities include teaching and performing as an accompanist and soloist.
With Reading Festival Chorus she has performed the piano part in Lambert's "Rio Grande";the Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor by J.S. Bach; and, coupled with another pianist, performed Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; also various solo items in summer concerts.
Jane has always enjoyed being the official accompanist of Reading Festival Chorus.
