Mary Mogil

British choral conductor, singer, teacher and voice trainer Mary Mogil was born Mary Elvidge in Campbeltown, Scotland on 3 December 1940. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she won the British Song Prize.

She was Head of Music and Speech & Drama at a public school and later Director of Music at a Grammar School in London, where she organised performances for children's, youth and adult groups, working with both amateur and professional speakers, singers and instrumentalists.

She spent over twenty years as singer, teacher and choir conductor in Salzburg, Austria, where she directed a variety of choirs ranging from chamber groups to an award-winning choral society. She also lectured at seminars for singers, choral directors and teachers and worked with choirs and dramatic societies in Germany and Switzerland.

She enjoyed singing and teaching classical music and drama, as well as a wide variety of folk, musical, jazz and contemporary vocal and choral music.

She was later a vocal coach and lecturer for voice training, choral conducting and Italian, German and French for singers at Morley College in London, UK. Her bold teaching style for choral conducting included organising public concerts then putting her students on the podium.

She founded and for many years conducted The Leon Singers, a chamber choir specialising in a cappella music from medieval to modern.

Mary Mogil died at her home in Salzburg on 10 October 2024, aged eighty-three.

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