Singing for fun is a friendly ladies choir based in Crowborough East Sussex.
We aim to inspire a love of singing, alongside developing musical skills, and we welcome all regardless of experience.  The most important thing about our choir is having fun and building confidence. 
​We hold two concerts a year,  with any money raised going to local charities, and we often get asked to sing at other local events such as festivals and weddings.

Mark Beesley our Music Director studied with the late Elisabeth Abercrombie, and Dennis Wicks (both pupils of Yani Strasser), and with Laura Sarti and Robert Alderson. He has sung as a soloist with many leading conductors and singers at the Royal Opera house, Glyndbourne and the English National Opera.
As a professional singer and singing teacher he greatly enjoys passing on his many years of practical experience in the singing profession.
He now works as a freelance singer, and has appeared in many of the leading opera houses in Europe, as well as having a thriving private teaching practice.
Mark says "It has been my great pleasure and honour to be the Music Director of the Crowborough Singing For Fun choir since 2010".
In that time I have seen and heard the choir develop and continue to grow from strength to strength.  I particularly like conducting this choir because of the wide breadth of repertoire they like to tackle from madrigals and classical choral works right through to arrangements of current popular songs.  This large and friendly choir rise to the occasion and do themselves justice.

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 Our accompanist, Mike Aston, is a graduate of Cambridge University and he also holds a piano teaching qualification from the Royal College of Music  London.  As well as running a busy private teaching practice in Yorkshire for many years, he also taught piano at two independent schools and lectured on music in the Continuing Education Department of Manchester University. Away from teaching he has performed at a soloist, accompanist, chamber music player and as half of a piano duo partnership.  

Oxford University Press have published several albums of piano duets under Mike's editorship, and these include new arrangements made by him. In recent years he has enjoyed presenting talks on various musical topics around the UK as well as in Italy and Canada.  Now mostly retired he continues to do small amounts of teaching as well as helping to raise funds for local charities.