The Lydian Singers is directed by its founder, John Naylor, who was a chorister at Durham and a scholar at Rossall School.  Following a choral scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge John became a member of the choir at the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, the Louis Halsey Singers and the Monteverdi Choir, and was a founder member of the chorus of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. John has sung in the cathedral choirs of Christ Church Oxford and Carlisle, and from time to time, can still be spotted on the back row of Chester Cathedral choir. He is also Music Director of the Nantwich Choral Society and until recently, conducted the Phoenix Singers of Shrewsbury.

John Naylor

David Hardie held organ scholarships at Dunblane Cathedral and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read law.  He practised as a solicitor until 2011 when he took up a place at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester to study for a master’s degree.  David has been Organist and Director of Music at St. Peter’s Church in Hale since 2005, and became Director of the Chester St Cecilia Singers in 2010, having previously been accompanist for 5 years.  He became accompanist to the Lydian Singers in 2011.

William Nicholson began his musical education as a chorister in Hexham Abbey Choir where organ lessons led to full-time study at the Royal Northern College of Music.  He subsequently became organ scholar at Chester Cathedral and is currently organist St John the Divine in Lambeth and Assistant to the Minor Canons of Westminster Abbey.  William has been accompanist to many choirs, including the Philharmonic Choir of Manchester, the Halton Singers and the Lydian Singers. He also sings with the London Symphony Chorus and the Rinaldo Consort.