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Andrew Goddard
Andrew is a native of Exeter and has always been involved with the musical life of the area. 

He initially studied piano, organ, violin and viola, but decided that the piano was his first love, and eventually he became a Fellow of the London College of Music in the early seventies, having studied piano performance.

Andrew is an organist and plays regularly at St Andrew’s Church, Kenn, a village just outside Exeter, and when he and Madeleine got married, he wrote their own wedding march for the occasion.

He is also the musical director and accompanist for the vocal quartet ‘Vocalise’, based in the Exeter area who are just about to celebrate their twentieth anniversary. They have raised the best part of £50,000 over the years, for various charities.

He prefers accompanying to solo work, and has accompanied many singers and instrumentalists in places such as London, Salisbury, Bristol and Truro Cathedral. He has been conducting choirs for over thirty years, twelve of which were with the Exeter Police Choir, now known as the Exeter Police and Community Choir. He has also been involved with many other Male Voice Choirs in various guises, ranging from solo performer, composer, arranger, emergency accompanist, etc. He is also the President of the Exeter Male Voice Choir, which is one of the oldest choirs, having been founded in the year 1900.

Andrew has been composing for many years, and has written not only choral music but also piano and instrumental pieces. Westcountry Music Ltd has been formed to promote his music.

In 2000 his full-length musical entitled ‘Heart of Granite’ was performed as part of the Exeter Festival, and played to capacity audiences every night. The libretto was written by Margaret Dowell. Extremely encouraging reviews were received and we are currently actively seeking to take this musical to the London area.

The first composing competition Andrew entered was for the Second International Male Voice Choir Festival held in Cornwall in April/May 2005, for a new piece for Male Voice Choir, and he won first prize. His piece, which was called ‘Hymn for Cornwall’, was performed by the Festival Choir in Truro Cathedral.

Spurred on by that win, he decided to enter a composing competition in London organised by the Questors Choir and this was for a new Christmas Carol. This took place in December 2005, and his piece ‘Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow’ won first prize.

Andrew has recently entered a prestigious competition for a new Christmas Carol organised by S4C in North Wales and again he has won first prize with his carol ‘Follow the Star’ or ‘Dilyn y Seren’ in Welsh. The carol is to be performed, in Welsh, in the Royal National Pavilion in Llangollen, North Wales, on 10^th December 2006 and broadcast later in the month on Channel S4C and S4C Digital.

He has also completed his first carol book called Christmas for Choirs – 1, containing ten of his original Christmas pieces for SATB choirs, and further editions are planned in due course for Male Voice Choirs and Ladies Choirs.

Andrew is a member of the Performing Right Society.

Madeleine Goddard
Madeleine was born in Devon and has lived there all her life.

She became interested in singing at an early age and soon developed a lovely soprano voice.

She has sung with several operatic societies in the area and has taken lead roles in many shows, the latest of which was The Merry Widow with Axminster Operatic Society in November 2003.

She has also had a long association with the St David’s Players based in Exeter performing Gilbert & Sullivan shows and sings regularly with Orfeo Opera.

She is a frequent guest soloist for many Male Voice choirs, including Exeter Police & Community. Exeter, Budleigh Salterton and Ilfracombe choirs, and on one occasion performed with the Llantrisant Male Voice Choir when they visited Torquay.

She has also sung with the Torbay Police Choir on a concert tour to Hameln in Germany, and more recently in Maastricht.

Madeleine is a founder member of the vocal quartet ‘Vocalise’ formed in 1987.

A notable leading role was in the new musical “Heart of Granite”, the music for which was written by her husband Andrew, when it was performed as part of the Exeter Festival in 2000.

In addition to her involvement with music, Madeleine and Andrew enjoy walking, especially in Austria!