Brendan Walls has been director of music at St Elizabeth Ann Seton in Crofton, MD since 2002.  Born and bred in England he first sang with (Helen Dyer and) David Whitehead in his fledgling St John's Cathedral Choir in the 60's.  As a child he studied piano with Annekate Friedlander and was awarded a County Scholarship to study with vocal coach Mary Simmonds; his interest as a teenager in vocal, choral and particularly church music grew as he became assistant organist at his parish chapel of SS Thomas a Becket and Thomas Moore in Emsworth, director of the Youth Folk Group, and a member of the Warblington Renaissance Choir under Dr Gavin Williams. His undergraduate harmony lessons with Noel Rawsthorne complimented being a lay-clerk at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, and over the next 10 years he directed Children's, Teen's and Senior's Community Choirs for the South Liverpool Choir Festival at the Philharmonic as well St Nicholas' at the Cathedral, St Bernard's in Toxteth and St Matthew's in West Derby.  Moving south he directed music at St Richard's in Chichester, and sang with and assisted Martin Ham in the Petersfield Renaissance Choir, and Clifford Pinhey at Boxgrove.  In 1995 he was appointed director of music at King Williams in Castletown.