Our highly experienced funeral singers

Your funeral soloists for the Hampshire, Surrey, London and Berkshire areas, Toni Nunn and Kirsty Young are professional opera singers with experience performing in a wide range of churches large and small, and hundreds of other venues across the UK.

For an experienced funeral singer and friendly, informed help, call us on 01252 511 762

What is a funeral sin​ger?

A funeral singer is a vocalist who specialises in singing at funeral services. We'll be honest, it's not a job every singer can do. It takes a combination of professionalism, experience and commitment to: 

• be organised and fully rehearsed on arrival
• sing when most of those around you may be in tears
• be respectful to the "guest of honour"
• learn and perform a wide variety of music in a very short timespan

We'd also add that it takes a certain mindset too. We genuinely are pleased to sing, to help and to comfort through music, and we feel honoured to be part of such an important family occasion even just for an hour or two.

Toni Nunn, soprano

Toni trained at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Australia before winning a major competition leading her to Europe to study and perform in Cologne, Germany and in the UK.

She has appeared with many UK opera companies in principal roles, and has performed in theatres large and small, from Sydney Opera House to the Yvonne Arnaud Guildford. Toni has also sung for Royalty, performing for Prince Charles and causing a media scrum by chatting to him afterwards for far longer than anyone else!

Toni has sung in hundreds of churches and cathedrals including St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney, Wells Cathedral, Portsmouth Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, and St Martin-in-the-Fields London. She has also sung in over 600 other venues across the UK and beyond, appeared on BBC TV, and been heard on numerous radio stations including BBC Radio 3, BBC Guernsey and Manx Radio. She was heard most recently on BBC Radio4 programme “The Funeral Singer”.

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Kirsty Young, mezzosoprano

Kirsty trained at Trinity College of Music London and performed with UK opera companies before setting up her own company, Hatstand Opera, in 1994.
 
She has sung in major churches in London, including St Martin-in-the-Fields, Southwark Cathedral, St John Smith Square, and St James's Sussex Gardens, plus churches large and small across the UK from Winchester Cathedral to St Wilfrid’s Grappenhall near Warrington!
 
She has also performed in theatres across the UK, including the Theatre Royal Winchester, the Nuffield Theatre Southampton and the Festival Theatre Chichester. Kirsty has also sung live on Classic FM, for BBC TV and BBC Radio 4, in a vineyard in Western Australia on the same bill as Julio Iglesias, and for a TV game show pilot with Ruby Wax and Peter André!

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