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stand behind him every step of
the way as priceless sources of
strength and encouragement.
In 2011, Lennox completed
a Masters degree in Music
Education with Boston
University, College of Fine Arts.
To date, he has a near
inexcusable schedule as
conductor and pianist at church,
music educator at school and
accompanist/ instrumentalist
at weddings and other functions
of all sorts around the island.

These are available to students
between the ages of four and forty.
Currently the school has a staff
of four (Lennox and three former
students). These young adults are
so inspired by the philosophy of the
school and the skills acquired that
they are excited about giving back
to the youger students.
In 2000 the St. Augustine’s Chorale,
the premiere gospel choir on the
island was formed and Lennox
was asked to be the director of that
group. The Chorale exists mainly
to present the Christian gospel
in song during the Easter and
Christmas seasons.

Lennox has remained very
passionate about music and music
making, not only for his own
development but to impart his
knowledge to the youth and adult
circles of whom he has found
himself an integral part.
Lennox is convinced that it was his
calling to travel back to Anguilla to
become involved in the musical
development of the island, not as a
solo performer only but more so
for all the lives he has been blessed
to touch through teaching. He is
further blessed with a lovely wife
of seventeen years, Elvarie and his
son Kamal now fifteen. They both

Music education is,
undoubtedly, everything to him:
his job - his
recreation - his passion - his
calling. The students and choristers
with whom he interacts all exude
a similar passion for music and
continue to excel on their various
levels and in their particular areas.
Lennox is thankful to God for
giving him, through experience
and reflection, a new project to
pursue. His first book entitled
“Broken Chords: Education and
Social Justice in Post 1986 Anguilla “
is set to be published in November
2016. The book is a commentary
in prose and poetry on the
treatment of our youth with special
emphasis on education. It calls
on all stakeholders in education
to embrace a transformational
mindset and summon the will
once exhibited so forcefully in our
bloodless revolution of 1967, to
preserve and advance the welfare
of the nation’s only sustainable
resource, our children.
Even through these persistent
challenges, and perhaps because
of them, developing youth
through music is Lennox’s guiding
philosophy and he counts it a
privilege to serve in the land of his
birth, Anguilla.

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