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Conductor, composer, and scholar Vicente Chavarria holds degrees from the University of Miami, the University of Southern California, and the Royal College of Music. He also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Leuven. A pupil of Morten Lauridsen and Haris Kittos, he has had compositions and arrangements performed around the world. At the Royal College of Music, he studied conducting with Peter Stark, Howard Williams, and Martyn Brabbins, and served as Assistant Conductor of the RCM Opera. He was formerly the Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Fellow at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and served as Co-Musical Director of Trinity Laban Opera. Chavarria is Principal Conductor/Musical Director of the Manchester Chamber Choir, the Handful Chamber Choir, and the early music ensemble Lilium Convallium, and has worked with orchestras and choirs around the UK and the US.