Vivian read Modern Languages at Girton College Cambridge and has combined her musical activities with a busy teaching career.

She was born in London and played her first piano concerto with a local orchestra at the age of thirteen.  She has spent most of her life in Shropshire where she continues to be based. She is much in demand as an accompanist and has appeared on the concert stage in the UK, the USA, the Czech Republic, France, Spain and Slovenia.

Recent work includes a recording of Schubert's Schwanengesang, and performances of sonatas by Brahms, Shostakovich and Cesar Franck with the violist Helen Waring.  She appeared with The Lydian Singers at a critically acclaimed recital of English music at the Music Conservatoire in Segovia, and in March 2008 her playing in the piano duet version of Brahms' German Requiem was very warmly reviewed.  She has given many performances with Newport and District Male Voice Choir, whom she has accompanied for twelve years.  She will be accompanying the Phoenix Singers of Shrewsbury from September 2009.

Vivian was appointed Musical Director of the Newport and District Male Voice Choir in July 2009 and is delighted to have the opportunity to  devote her expertise and extensive knowledge of the repertoire to this new challenge in her musical career for a choir that she loves