Our conductor is Martin Loveday. Martin studied Violin and Composition at the Royal College of Music. After a brief spell freelancing in London, mostly with the LSO, he went to Portugal to study with the Russian violin teacher, Maxim Jacobsen, and to play in the Gulbenkian Chamber Orchestra.

On his return he renewed his association with the LSO and later joined the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Symphony. During this time he was able to work with some of the great conductors of the period including Kempe, Barbirolli, Stokowski and Rozhdestvensky.

Positions as leader of the RTE (Dublin) and BBC Concert Orchestras followed and it was during the eighteen years with the BBC that his involvemement in conducting began. In 1990 he became director/conductor of the Esterhazy Chamber Orchestra and gave concerts in country houses and music festivals around England.

Since his retirement as Leader of the BBC Concert Orchestra he took up a position at the Junior RCM coaching and conducting. He is also involved in conducting amateur orchestras in England including the Leamington Chamber, Peterborough Symphony and Redhill Sinfonia and he has also visited Iceland, Portugal and Ireland.