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 . Grenville also produces Charity shows in the Bath area, which have raised over £30,000 in the last 2 years. Look out for the Bathsingforlife which will take place in Bath on the first Bank holiday weekend of May in 2009 - May 1st - 4th. The City of Bath Male Choir and THE Bath Chorus will be two of the choirs taking part on Friday May 1st at St John's Catholic Church in South Parade. See the Bathsingforlife website for details.

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.

Photobucket Francis Faux - Deputy Conductor and Accompanist

Francis Faux started his musical career when, at the age of 7, he was awarded a scholarship to Westminster Cathedral Choir School. Coached by James O'Donnell, Francis recorded several albums as a chorister, often as a soloist, and made appearances on Songs of Praise and Radio 4's Midweek Choice.

As a top music scholar at Eton College, he learned to conduct under the guidance of Ralph Allwood, which culminated in his co-direction of Christmas Music from Eton College. He also recorded with the King's Consort and worked alongside Susan Digby, a judge on BBC1's Last Choir Standing, for Yehudi Menuhin's 80th birthday celebration at the Royal Albert Hall.

During his time at Bath Spa University, he assumed the role of Musical Director on several occasions in productions of Into the Woods, Dido and Aeneas, A Threepenny Opera, and The Medium.

He has also accompanied for the International Guitar Festival as well as acted as repetiteur for Bath Opera and Devizes and Chippenham Light Opera Groups in productions of The Pajama Game, Sweeney Todd and The Jewels of the Madonna. He has most recently finished working with Bath Light Operatic Group in the Theatre Royal in their acclaimed production of Sweeney Todd. Francis has recently taken on the conductorship of the Organum Choir and acts as Grenville's deputy conductor of the Bath Chorus. He also teaches piano at both Oldfield School and Downside School in Somerset, as well as being a lecturer in musical theatre at Bath Spa University.