Janet Wheeler

Janet Wheeler (born 1957) is a British composer and choral conductor, based in Saffron Walden, Essex. Early life Wheeler was a junior exhibitioner at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from the age of 10. She read music at Newnham College, Cambridge. After graduating, Wheeler became a secondary school music teacher, then became a music producer for BBC Schools radio primary music before specialising entirely in conducting and composing. Composer Wheeler's music has been sung by I Fagiolini, Gloucester Cathedral Choir, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, the Chapel Choir of University College, Oxford, Sonoro Choir, ORA Singers, Farnham Youth Choir, Harlequin Chamber Choir, Psallite Women's Choir, Imperial College Choir, Southampton Philharmonic Choir the Chandos Chamber Choir and St Bride's Choir at St Bride's Church. In 2018 the London International Choral Conducting Competition commissioned The Cries of Music with words written by Welsh librettist and poet Euan Tait. Wheeler's music has been sung at the Three Choirs Festival and at the Leith Hill Music Festival.