I think my parents thought piano lessons was money thrown away!
My earliest memory of music was, aged eight, going with my father to the Royal Albert Hall to a Prom.
I took piano lessons when young but I think my parents thought it was money thrown away. Much, much later – in my 40s - I was taught piano by a wonderful Finnish lady in Cambridge and she took me to Grade 7.
My children went to the King’s College prep school and one of them was a chorister, so we were exposed to a great deal of music. He doesn’t sing now but directs choirs.
Finding my way back to the Royston Choral Society is partly because we live nearby and I already knew people in the choir. I’ve dipped in and out – I sang in the Dream of Gerontius six or seven years ago, and I’ve now returned for the Brahms German Requiem.