Julian
is an experienced and talented organist who will work with you to
select a beautiful and polished accompaniment for your wedding ceremony
or church service. He is highly accomplished at performing as a solo
organist and also accompanying singers and other musicians.
Julian
was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, where he was
a Music Scholar. He subsequently studied Chemistry at Durham where
he was awarded a BSc and PhD. Whilst at Durham he was Organ Scholar
at the College of St Hild and St Bede, as well as Organist at St John’s
Church, Nevilles Cross, Durham. He studied the organ with Keith Wright,
the assistant organist at the cathedral.
Julian
won six prizes in the Associate of the Royal College Organists diploma
including the prestigious Limpus prize, and subsequently won the Harding
and Durrant prizes in the Fellowship examination. After leaving Durham,
he continued his organ studies with Anne Page in Cambridge. He was
previously Assistant Organist at St Neots Parish Church in Cambridgeshire
and accompanied the choir on their many cathedral visits, including
a tour to Helsinki.
Julian
has given recitals at the cathedrals of Durham, Dunblane and St Giles
(Edinburgh), as well as in various parish churches, in the cathedrals
of Lviv and Kyiv in Ukraine, and has attended study courses on historical
organs in the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. He has also played continuo
for choral societies, and with the Guildford Oriana Orchestra.
Since
January this year he has been Assistant Organist at St Thomas-on-The
Bourne in Farnham, which maintains a choir of boys and men, together
with a girls’ choir and an adult chamber choir. He has played for
numerous concerts and for services in many UK-based cathedrals.
