THE PEOPLE

Charles Pavey
One of Powick Community Choir's regular accompanists since 2012, Charles studied at Trinity College of Music in London and Homerton College, Cambridge. He first lived in Malvern in the late nineteen-eighties when he taught at Dyson Perrins CE High School and was organist at The Church of the Ascension. After teaching for seven years in Plymouth he returned to Malvern and is still here.
He now teaches piano, organ and keyboard in the area and is Organist and Choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church in Malvern. He very recently set up Young Chorale, a choir for younger voices, which rehearses in the same place.
He has conducted Malvern Male Voice Choir since 2004, having previously been involved with the conducting or accompanying of Malvern Light Opera Society and Worcester Gilbert & Sullivan Society. He was also the founder conductor of The St Richards Hospice Singers. Beyond teaching, conducting and accompanying, his passions are for rail travel, a little reading and, in the summer, finding the weather and time to enjoy his garden.

Ruth Melhuish
... Is a pianist, flautist and singer who trained as a music therapist in London in 1991. Ruth is Deputy Director of Music Therapy for Mindsong, a Gloucestershire-based charity which specialises in supporting people with dementia through music. She is an experienced piano accompanist and chamber musician who has worked with community choirs in Worcestershire and London. She is a member of Serenata, an eight-voice a cappella group which regularly performs in the Malvern area.