Key People

Tom Williams, Musical Director

Countertenor Tom Williams enjoys a successful career as a performer, conductor and teacher. A former senior choral scholar in the world-famous choir of King’s College in Cambridge, he has sung as a soloist in major international concert venues and has worked as an ensemble singer for several legendary conductors and living composers. With the EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, one of the world’s leading ensembles for new music, Tom enjoys a busy European concert diary, specialising in contemporary and early music.

For more than a quarter century he has sung as a regular Choirman at the Temple Church in London. He also sang with Stephen Layton’s chamber choir Polyphony as a core member for over a decade. Within this enriching vocal landscape, Tom has played his part on well over 50 album releases, some of which have gone on to win major awards. As Director of Leicestershire Chorale, he has received critical acclaim from both UK and international press. He has conducted the Temple Singers and coordinated the Vocal Ensemble Course at Dartington International Summer School. He has directed Finchley Children’s Music Group and acted as vocal coach for the RSCM and the National Youth Choir of Poland.

He teaches singing at two leading independent schools in the East Midlands and lives in Leicestershire with his wife Nicky Bouckley, DoM at Loughborough Foundation Schools and his son George, a keen trombonist and supporter of Leicester City Football Club.

Nick Scott-Burt, Accompanist

Nicholas Scott-Burt has been Leicestershire Chorale’s accompanist and assistant conductor since September 2022, and his performances as both pianist and organist, in his accompanying role and as a soloist, have become an established part of Chorale’s programming.

As well as his playing, which embraces a broad range of style including jazz and improvisation, he is a prolific composer of music ranging from pop songs to symphonic scores – most recently his Sinfonietta: The Western Cape, composed in 2024 for the Cape Town and Stellenbosch Youth Orchestras. A double CD of his Twenty-Four Preludes for Piano (2019) performed by Korean pianist Da-Hee Kim was released globally by Divine Arts Records in March 2026.