Madeleine Lovell is Musical Director of the St George's Chamber Orchestra, the Lea Singers and Aylesbury Festival Choir. She has conducted many choirs and orchestras around the UK, including the BBC Symphony Chorus and the Philharmonia Chorus. Future plans include work with the BBC Symphony Chorus at the 2008 Proms.

Having studied music at King's College, Cambridge - graduating with a double starred first in 1999 - Madeleine received an M. Phil in Musicology from Cambridge in 2000, and spent a further two years researching comic opera. She has a Masters in singing from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with Sarah Pring. As a conductor she has received tuition from, among others, Sian Edwards, Diego Masson, Bob Chilcott (in a masterclass with the BBC Singers), George Hurst, Denise Ham and Rodolfo Saglimbeni. Madeleine attended the 2005 Dartington International Summer School Advanced Conducting Course (where her studies were funded by a D'Oyly Carte Bursary), performing excerpts from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.

In February 2007 Madeleine conducted Die Fledermaus with Alternative Opera in Tunbridge Wells. The production was reviewed by Antony Craig for Gramophone magazine, who wrote: "Madeleine Lovell ... marshalled all her forces with skill and finesse." She has a busy schedule of concerts as conductor and pianist, including dates with the St. George's Chamber Orchestra, which The Daily Telegraph has dubbed a "bright new ensemble".