Choral Director

Stonyhurst College is the UK’s leading Catholic co-educational boarding and day school for pupils aged 3-18. Boarding is from the age of 7.

At the College, there are approximately 520 pupils aged 13-18, two thirds of whom are boarders. At Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall, the adjacent dedicated preparatory school, there are around 300 pupils aged 3-13. Stonyhurst is set in stunning countryside, near the Ribble and Hodder rivers and the beautiful Trough of Bowland. Manchester is only about an hour away by road or rail. The market town of Clitheroe is four miles away, and we are 12 miles from the city of Preston. The Lake District can be reached in about an hour, and the Yorkshire Dales are even closer.

Stonyhurst has a fascinating heritage, being the oldest continuously active Jesuit school in the world.

It was founded in St Omer, Northern France (then the Spanish Netherlands), in 1593, and moved to its present site in Lancashire’s beautiful Ribble Valley in 1794. Throughout the years of religious

persecution in England, Stonyhurst educated the boys of the English Catholic aristocracy and gentry, and is now an innovative, forward-thinking and inclusive co-educational school.

We are currently seeking to appoint an exceptional musician to join Stonyhurst as a Choral Director, delivering a School’s Singing Programme to twelve local Primary schools.

We offer this programme through funding from the National Schools’ Singing Programme and the Hamish Ogston Foundation. The aim of the NSSP is to combat declining availability of specialist music lessons for children and to provide pathways for musically talented young people to go on to attend some of the country's leading universities and conservatoires.