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NANDA Stephen Godward

Went to High Pavement Grammar School 1973 then on to theGuildhall School of Music and Drama 1976 and became the Head of Performing Arts, West Park School Spondon 1977 to 2010.
Started at school with Gilbert and Sullivan and then went into the amateur field and did lots of amateur shows and progressed to doing professional ones and with The National Gilbert and Sullivan Company since retirement from West Park.
Stephen started out studying music at The Guildhall Shool of Music and Drama and went on to perform in everything from the Mozart buffo roles of Figaro, Papageno, Leporello and Don Alfonso to parts in La Boheme, Aida, Turandot, The Bartered Bride, Carmen and L'Elisir d'Amore, as well as countless musicals and a busy concert schedule.
He has also performed in all 13 of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in many different venues around the country, as well as in Canada, the USA and Spain, has appeared with Gilbert and Sullivan For All and The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and been stepping into panto.
He is also the Musical director of the Bluecoat Singers.