Tori Longdon is the Principal Conductor of the Covent Garden Chorus, and Associate Chorus

Director of the London Philharmonic Choir, with whom she has helped to prepare choruses for

Sir Mark Elder, Ed Gardner and Vladimir Jurowski. She is in demand internationally following

her work on the King’s Coronation Concert in May 2023 when she coached eighteen choirs

from around the United Kingdom to perform for the king.

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Tori recently chorus-mastered her first Prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and

travels the world leading masterclasses and adjudicating competitions, most recently in

Germany (November 25) Australia (June 25) and the US (March 25). She has lectured for the

Artist Development postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music, and for the

musicianship course at the Junior Guildhall Conservatoire.

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Tori is currently a conductor for Songs Of Praise on BBC1, as well as an adjudicator for ‘BBC

Young Choir Of The Year’. In July 2025 she joined the jury panel for the ‘Choir Of The World’

Competition at the Llangollen Eisteddfod, and will return to the festival in 2026.