Meet the Team
Doing What They Love
Maggi Griffiths
Musical Director and Choir Manager
Maggi Griffiths studied Music and Education at Coventry College of Education/Warwick University. She has taught extensively in the UK and overseas both as a Music Specialist as well as a general class teacher. Her first love is singing, and she also plays the piano and recorder. She has sung in many choral and operatic societies and enjoys directing school choirs as well as teaching one to one singing.
Maggi taught Music at Thaxted Primary School for fifteen years before retiring in 2020. During that time, she directed many concerts both in school and in the wider community.
Maggi currently sings with the Saffron Walden Choral Society as well as directing and managing Thaxted Singers.
Sue Hickman
Accompanist
Sue Hickman is a freelance musician and accompanist, having studied at the Royal College of Music. She studied piano performance with Steven Savage and the late Sydney Harrison, and cello with Anthony Pini. After gaining a singing diploma, she added teaching choirs to her skills, and now works regularly as an accompanist. Sue currently directs the Bishops Stortford U3A singers and has taught music both in and out of the classroom for forty years. She plays in lunchtime concerts with the violinist Philippa Hanson, and is an examiner for Trinity College, London. Sue has also written and produced a C.D. of children’s worship songs, and more recently, a C.D. album of piano music to raise funds for Gastric Cancer Research.