Sarina Rattan is a music graduate of the University of Birmingham, where she specialised in conducting, violin, and voice. While studying, she was an active member of the University Music Society, participating in the Philharmonic Orchestra and singing in the Birmingham University Singers conducted by Bob Chilcott as well as other small vocal ensembles. Outside of university, Sarina was the musical director of two community choirs: Newman University Chapel Choir and The People’s Show Choir,  West Bromwich.  

 From a young age, Sarina has sung in choirs such as John Lewis’s Voices in Partnership, Redbridge Youth Choir, and Serafine Chamber Choir. She was a member of the CBSO Chorus and is a current Fellow with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. As part of NYC’s 40th Anniversary Concert at The Royal Albert Hall, her cohort of Fellows performed solos in Ben Parry’s commissioned work: One Long Song. She has taken part in several recording sessions under NMC recordings, and she conducted Precious Lord (Arnold Sevier) for the National Youth Choir 18-25 in Duke’s Hall at the Royal Academy of Music. Sarina completed her conductor training with Sing for Pleasure in 2021 and has since gone on to conduct community and workplace choirs in and around London. Sarina also arranges music and has produced some vocal arrangements for university vocal ensembles and her workplace choirs.

Sarina Rattan