Musical direction

Duncan Aspden is a freelance conductor, organist and continuo player. A former Organ Scholar of Canterbury Cathedral and of Jesus College Cambridge, Duncan has held further positions at Bristol and Chelmsford Cathedrals. He completed post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 2005 with distinction, the coveted DipRAM and the Sir Thomas Armstrong prize for his final recital with the Academy Chamber Choir. He has won several other prizes as both conductor and organist and participated in masterclasses with David Hill; James O’Donnell; Stephen Layton; Mike Brewer and the National Youth Choir; and the BBC Singers.

Duncan is presently Director of Music of the City of Oxford Choir, Musical Director of the St Peter’s Singers, and Associate Director of Music at Farm Street Church in Mayfair, regularly directing and accompanying one of London’s leading professional church choirs. As a conductor and continuo player, he has performed for BBC Radio and Television and has appeared in the London Handel and Utrecht early music festivals. He has directed I Fagiolini and the London Mozart Players, conducted a number of opera scenes for the Royal Academy of Music, and has directed choirs on a number of recordings and in concerts throughout Europe.