The RSCMA Carolina Summer Choral Residency is pleased to welcome Tansy Castledine as this year’s Music Director!

Described by BBC Radio 3 as “one of the UK’s leading women conductors” Tansy is a highly regarded British choral conductor at the forefront of the profession within Church Music. Her dynamic and engaging style is known for engendering outstanding results from the choirs with which she works, making her much in demand as a conductor, educator, and animateur. Across the span of her career Tansy has run a wide range of choirs and courses for children, adults, amateurs, and professionals. A prize-winning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Oxford, Tansy holds the FRCO diploma, National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL), and ARAM for services to choral music. She serves as a Trustee for the Royal School of Church Music and Church Music Society, and is a member of the Academic Board of the Royal College of Organists.

Formerly President of the Music Teachers’ Association, and an Inspector for Music, Tansy has broadcast on BBC Radio and television, ITV, and Channel 4. In addition to recording CDs, Tansy has also presented a broad repertoire of concerts and singing events in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia. Performance venues include the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican, and St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Cathedral of our Lady of Angels in Los Angeles, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and the Cathedrals of St John the Divine, and St Patrick in New York, and St John’s in Brisbane.

Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral in the UK since 2018, Tansy conducts the Cathedral Choir daily during extended term times for services, concerts, recordings, tours, and broadcasts. Tansy’s passion for all things choral music extends to supporting and encouraging the musical leaders of the future through her consultancy practice, teaching conducting, and coaching and mentoring aspiring choir leaders.