Musical Director

Our Joint Musical Directors are Rae Watney and Lisa Robathan.

Rae is based in Leeds, UK. She has been competing in choruses and quartets since university (including winning a bronze medal at the world mixed chorus championships singing with EQMC), and is excited to lead Endeavour. She directs the White Rose Chorus (male - BABS) in Leeds. She currently sings with the White Rosettes (LABBS 2022 gold medallists) and the LABBS Youth Chorus, and is an international quartet and chorus coach. She also has a tortoise called Prismo.

​Lisa is based in Edinburgh. She has been an A Cappella director since 2004 and a self confessed barbershop nerd since 2010. She is an international quartet and chorus coach and arranger and has worked with and had arrangements performed by groups in the UK, Europe and America. She is the 2019 UK BinH gold medallist with her quartet Scandal, and sings with Firth Valley Chorus (SAI R31 2022 gold medallists) . She likes chocolate, purple things, terrible puns and tongue twisters.