Originally from Savannah, Georgia (USA), Sharon Mays is a postgraduate student on the MMus in Choral Studiesat Selwyn College, Cambridge University, where she sings with Selwyn College Chapel Choir and the Cambridge University Chamber Choir. In Cambridge she conducts the Wilmington Consort and is a Volunteer Teacher with King’s Junior Voices. She earned a BM in Sacred Music at Samford University (Birmingham, AL), where she sang in the A Cappella Choir with Philip Copeland, directed the women’s chorus of Delta Omicron, and was president of the university’s chapter of ACDA. In Birmingham she interned and was subsequently hired as Children’s Choir Assistant at the Cathedral Church of the Advent (Episcopal) with Frederick Teardo. An active choral singer, she was a member of the Cathedral's top choir and a Birmingham-based Renaissance polyphony ensemble, Highland Consort. She has studied singing as a soprano for six years, previously with Brad Diamond and now with Anita Morrison. In her last year of university she began organ studies with Frederick Teardo and now studies with Alex Goodwin.