Meet the Choir

Kim Kaye - Musical Director                             Val Purkiss - Accompanist
                  

Kim began to play the piano at the age of five, learning first with her mother who is a piano teacher, before going to the Royal Academy of Music in London to study the piano and cello. After gaining an Honours Degree in Music and a Piano Teacher's Diploma she did a postgraduate year in performance and piano accompaniment. Since leaving the Academy she has mastered playing the flute.

Kim now lives in Meltham and has a busy piano teaching practice as well as being sought after as an accompanist for concerts, festivals and examinations. She joins Jane Robertson in the piano duo 'RO'KA' and Denise Sanders (violin) in the duo 'Anything Goes' providing music for weddings and parties.

Kim is also the pianist and deputy conductor for Marsh Ladies Choir and works part-time for Kirklees Music School.

Having been a member of the Holme Valley Singers for 18 years she has moved through the ranks of singer, deputy conductor and deputy pianist, pianist and now, musical director.