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Soo trained as a trumpeter at The Royal Academy of Music and pursued a successful career as a freelance trumpeter with numerous orchestras and ensembles in the London area. She also taught as a peripatetic brass teacher and ran Saturday music-making workshops for children and adults at Morley College. Soo subsequently qualified as a music therapist and classroom music teacher, working at various schools in Merton and Lambeth, combining her teaching with work as a festival adjudicator and music education consultant.
Soo worked as a full-time Music Coordinator at The Priory C of E Primary School in Wimbledon and was subsequently appointed as Merton’s first Advanced Skills Teacher for Primary Music. In April 2005, Soo was appointed as Associate Director of Merton’s schools' music service, Merton Music Foundation and is currently MMF’s Creative and Projects Director. Her work is focused on supporting school-based music curriculum delivery across Merton's 56 primary, secondary and special state-maintained schools. She has extensive experience as a choral director and led MMF's Young Voices and VoiceBox choirs for 23 years before recently passing over the baton. As part of her MMF role, Soo devises, project-manages and delivers large-scale choral performance projects, which include preparing a choir of 1,200 young singers for MMF’s bi-annual ‘Music is for Life’ massed concert at The Royal Albert Hall.
Soo is a proud member of the Central Band of the Royal British Legion, who are regularly featured at veteran events and on the BBC. She also plays with Epsom and Ewell Silver Band and sings with the Thames Singers, a small independent chamber choir.
Soo can be contacted by emailing director@wimbledoncommunitychorus.org
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