Sharon & Eleanore

Sharon started teaching singing and performance 18 years ago. Her first job was as the Individual Vocals Tutor at the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Guildford, where she spent a year and a half before going completely freelance (she's been teaching individuals from her base in Cranleigh ever since).

Sharon has also taught songwriting at Hurtwood House School (6th form public school) and was the singing and performance tutor at Cranleigh Arts Centre from 2000 - 2006. From 2006 - 2010 she was the singing tutor for the West Sussex Adult & Community Learning Service and is choral director for the Cranleigh Community Choir, which she set up in January 2006 (she also set up and ran the Dorking Community Choir for three years from 2011 - 2014).

Sharon started out as a singer/songwriter on a semi-professional basis at fifteen and then trained as a teacher. She moved to London in her early twenties where she was lead singer in numerous bands, eventually having her own band playing predominantly her own compositions.

In the early eighties, she worked as a session singer at the prestigious Abbey Road Studios and was then signed for a record deal.