KJV Community Children's Choir

Honorary Chair of KJV’s Board of Trustees, Prof Ian Cross is Emeritus Professor of Music and Science at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. In 2001 he founded and built the Centre for Music & Science in the Faculty of Music at Cambridge; amongst other topics his research has embraced the psychoacoustics of violins, the evolutionary roots of musicality, the effects of group music-making on the development of children’s empathic capacities, and the relationships between music and language. He is Editor-in-Chief of SAGE’s Open Access journal Music & Science, has sung in many choirs (from childhood contributions to the Scottish Junior Singers to the present-day Wolfson College Choir), and is a Trustee of SEMPRE (the Society for Research in Psychology, Education and Music) and the Music Therapy Charity. He is also a classical guitarist.

Honorary Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Sarah is a Legal Director at an international law firm based in London, but has lived in Cambridge since 2009. Both her children have sung in KJV; the youngest is still an enthusiastic member of the choir.

Sarah has been a keen singer since school days, and for many years sang with her local choir in London, the Hackney Singers, as well as joining other projects for amateur singers with the Hackney Empire theatre (performing in a Jonathan Dove opera) and the English National Opera (a staged performance of Bach’s St. John Passion).

In her role as Parent Trustee of KJV, she represents the views of the parents of choir members, and also provides legal input when needed. She helps at choir rehearsals as a parent volunteer, which is one of her favourite ways of spending a Saturday morning!

Honorary Treasurer of KJV’s Board of Trustees.

James is Dir of Music at King’s College School, Cambridge.

Lucius is an alumnus of KJV who sang with the choir for 8 years. He is an elected Member of East Cambridgeshire District Council, and has a particular interest in standing up for the interests of young people. He is studying Politics at King’s College London.
He sung with the AC Academy at the Royal Albert Hall in 2016, and performed in 15 concerts with KJV, including being conducted by Stephen Cleobury and performing alongside Prime Brass and the King’s Singers. He now sings with the King’s College London Music Society choir.
Lucius believes passionately that music is essential education and can explain things words cannot. He is excited to help with KJV’s future communication strategies and maintain a close association with the choir.

Jennifer works as a legal consultant specialising in responsible business conduct and human rights. Based near Cambridge, she provides policy advisory services to a wide range of organisations, including the United Nations, the OECD, the Council of Europe, various human rights agencies and some national governments. She is also an Associate Fellow in the International Law Programme of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) where her work is mainly concerned with finding ways to better align trade policy with human rights concerns. She is passionate about music, having studied piano, clarinet and voice as a young person, and for several years now has been attempting to master the organ in her village church. She has sung in several (mostly German language) choirs and is the proud parent of two former members of KJV Community Children’s Choir. She is also a volunteer rowing coach for the junior squad of a Cambridge-based rowing club. Jennifer is an Australian and was educated at the University of Adelaide and the University of London before moving to Cambridge in 1998 to embark on her PhD in international law. The extraordinary educational and cultural opportunities on offer to the young people of our community, of which the KJV Community Children’s Choir is a shining example, are just some of the reasons why she has never left Cambridge, and probably never will!