Meet Levowan

Director of Music (Accompanist & Founding Member)

Mark Smith

Mark studied piano and organ at Trinity College of Music, London and worked as an accompanist in London and the South East before moving to Cornwall in 2011. Other interests aside from music are organic gardening, foraging, walking and reading. 

Soprano ( Administration & Founding Member)

Anne Shaw

I am happily retired after a career in banking. I started singing at the age of 55 - the best thing anyone can do!
I love painting in watercolour and relaxing in the garden.

Soprano (Hospitality)

Mel Mehta

I enjoy stabbing cloth 10000 times, working with performers on vocal health & returning them to their passion following vocal challenges. I love singing in beautiful venues.

Soprano

Nicky Brown

I took my first tentative steps into singing in my early 20s and have loved performing in musicals, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Opera South West and most recently with the Chorus of Westerly in Rhode Island, USA. I am often found on the side of a rugby field or basketball court with my husband Mike, cheering on our son Benjamin.

Alto (Hospitality)

Helen Reid

I met and married my husband Andy through our love of singing and we have a daughter Hannah who pursues the same love for creating music professionally.
I am kept busy as an HR Manager for an outstanding care company which cares for young individuals with complex physical and learning difficulties transitioning from childhood to young adults.

Alto (PR & Marketing)

Kaye Rogers

I am proud to be a domiciliary care worker, enabling people to remain independent in their own homes. I enjoy speaking Spanish and German, sampling good gin with friends and walking on Dartmoor with our two Springer Spaniels.

Alto

Hilary Savigear

I retired in 2022 after a career as a Probation Officer and in latter years supporting families of homicide victims. I am a proud and busy granny to four boys and a girl. I enjoy singing and performing with a large community choir and orchestra, gardening, theatre, reading; and travelling and walking with my husband and our elderly spaniel Daisy.

Tenor (Events Co-ordinator)

Rob Shepherd

I am a Devonian, a retired civil engineer by profession but with music being a major pastime, including working as a choir leader and an orchestra member. Other interests include sailing a catamaran, skiing, gardening and organising an annual music festival in Tavistock.

Tenor

John Concannon

I am a retired Chartered Surveyor. I moved from Manchester to Devon in 2022 and sang with the Plymouth Area Police Choir. I have lots of interests including amateur dramatics, hillwalking, tennis, cycling and skiing.

Tenor

Phil Harriman

I have been a singer from an early age, in school and church choirs and then for many years in local Male Voice choirs.
Retiring from the Royal Navy in 2001, I had various jobs, including running my own house clearance business. I am now retired from work and enjoy puppy raising for the Guide Dogs Association.

Bass (Composer in Residence)

Hugh Walkington

I was invited to join when Levowan augmented from 8 to 12 singers. I have a love for composition and feel proud that Levowan have premiered a number of my pieces. I enjoy teaching French and playing golf and I am an enthusiastic traveller.

Bass (Finance & Founding Member)

Graham Shaw

I am ex-Royal Navy and a retired gardener but I am still interested in gardening, walking, genealogy and quality testing real ales and ciders.

Bass

Stewart MacDougall

Joined in September 2021.

Singing has always been a passion of mine from early years in Old St Paul’s Church in Edinburgh, Bristol Choral Society in later years and more recently Plymouth Philharmonic Choir. I am ex-RN of 46 years and now retired, offering more opportunities to enjoy golf, theatre, caravanning and Plymouth Argyle.