Founder conductor of THE Bath Chorus is Grenville Jones - a man with a growing reputation for getting everyone to sing! Being brought up in a Methodist home in Swindon, music was always in hearing distance and his life subsequently has never been too far removed from choirs, singing and music.In September 2008 Grenville travelled to London to be interviewed by Aled Jones on his Sunday Radio 3 Programme 'The Choir' Aled quizzed Grenville about his numerous choirs and in particular, the success of Bath Male Choir on the BBC Last Choir Standing BBC TV series - where the Boys from Bath sang in front of a 5 million TV audience - prompting Grenville still be to be recognised even to this day as "the Choir man from the Telly!"
Aled was also keen to hear about the Charity Golden-Oldies which was inspired and started by Grenville in January 2008 and has attracted huge World - Wide media interest.
Grenville conducted the Silver Ring Choir of Bath for 11 years, parting company with them in December 2008. During that time he doubled the size of the choir and put them on stage with some of the top names including Jamie Cullum, Clare Teal, Aled Jones, Katherine Jenkins and Hayley Westenra. There were tours to New Zealand and last September Grenville took the Silver Ring on a hugely successful tour of Canada.
Grenville enjoys the reputation in and around Bath of being 'Bath's Mr Music!' He also has an auditioned fabulous, girls close-harmony and swing group called Stockingtops, and is about to start an afternoon choir in Bath for retired people. It will be called The Good Afternoon Choir - check out all of his projects on www.grenvillejones.biz
Aged 60, Grenville owns a PR and publishing business, including a group of golf magazines, Regional Golf Ltd. Yes, he’s a busy man! He recently became a Grandad for the first time and is constantly proudly showing people photographs of Isaac Jones!
For a number of years in the 80s he sang in the barbershop group Five-in-a-Bar, making records and appearing on many national radio and TV shows including Jim’ll fix it, The Cliff Richard Show and Blue Peter, but he’s lost the badge! Many of the arrangements sung by the quintet were his. During the Last Choir Standing series the BBC showed a clip of a very young GJ singing with Five-in-a-Bar on Blue Peter, and one of the interviews with Grenville on the show was in the Blue Peter garden!
Grenville is a member of the Association of British Choral Directors. Through ABCD he has forged friendships with the famous Rodolfus Choir . He was invited to be a Trustee of Rodolfus by its founder Ralph Allwood in August 2005, he is now an Executive Board Trustee of Rodolfus.
Grenville’s natural musical ability and enthusiasm will take THE Bath Chorus on an exsciting journey - working with the talented Francis Faux as deputy and acccompanist.
Francis Faux is Deputy Conductor and accompanist - click here to visit his website and find out why Grenville is delighted that Francis is on THE Bath Chorus team.