MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Throughout the last eighteen years of directing choirs and orchestras Kris Emmett has discovered an absolute zeal for teaching music and inspiring others to further their musical development in a variety of settings, including ecclesiastical, community choral, chamber and choral society.  As a choirmaster, he currently works with several choirs and choruses across Somerset and Dorset, including community, barbershop, sacred and chamber and combines this with his experience with orchestral players for the richest variety of music.

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As a composer proficient in DAW and notation, he writes music for audiobooks, with forays into TV, incidental and video game music whilst as an orchestrator and arranger, he specialises in creating custom backing and click tracks for national artists that can be combined with live musicians.

 

He specialises in coaching modern leadership, whether that's group dynamics and the empowerment of colleagues and business administration or restructuring a company to balance responsibility in the corporate sphere.  His own leadership style is drawn from the airline industry and their use of Crew Resource Management in synergy with inspiration from symphonic conductor Itay Talgam and his work with British CEOs, such as James Timpson.  In the past this has included fellow conductors and directors as well as updating the management style in the workplace and leading team building workshops. 

A graduate of the BA (Hons) Music programme at the University of Plymouth with an Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Music Department with specialisms in both choral and orchestral direction he went on to postgraduate studies in Music and the Environment with the University of Highlands and Islands.  As an organist he plays to ARCO standard and conducts to LRSM standard following an accredited substitute for the DipABRSM (Music Direction) from the Association of British Choral Directors in 2008.