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Following a thorough musical training as a choir-boy in Hereford and Chester Cathedrals, Jolyon Dodgson went on to study at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where one of his tutors was Heddle Nash. While still at College he became one of the first members of the BBC Northern Singers, as it was then called, with whom he has now been associated for over 40 years. He was also a Songman at York Minster and one of the first regular performers in the long-running early television programme "Music for You".
Jolyon Dodgson was the first tutor in vocal studies at the University of Lancaster, where he conducted the University Choral Society and the Chamber Choir and several productions in the Nuffield Theatre. He later became the Director of the MacRobert Arts Centre at the University of Stirling, and Chorus-Master and Conductor of the BBC Scottish Singers. He has performed in many hundreds of radio and television broadcasts, gramophone recordings and concert tours, in this country and abroad. He is now the Manager of the Britten Singers, the successor to the BBC Northern Singers, while running his own choral and vocal management and concert agency business, known as Northern Voices, and undertaking many singing and conducting engagements.
During the course of a long and distinguished musical career Jolyon Dodgson has performed in most of the major Festivals and concert halls in the UK and many overseas, in addition to his radio and television appearances. His work has taken him on concert tours of Australia, Iceland, Hong Kong, Poland, Thailand, Turkey, Zimbabwe, and most of the European and Scandinavian countries.
Jolyon Dodgson was born in Hereford, but has lived in the Lake District for many years. He now serves on many music and arts committees, both in the north and in London. He is a member and former Vice-Chairman of the Concert and Session Singers Committee of British Actors' Equity, and his name is among the distinguished list of Past Wardens of the Performers and Composers Section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. In Cumbria he is Chairman of Lonsdale Music, and has recently retired as a Trustee and past Chairman of Eden Arts Trust based in Penrith.
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