Alexander Chaplin -Acting Music Director

We are delighted to announce that our former accompanist, Alexander Chaplin, will be Acting Music Director from 1st May to 31st December 2009. 

Educated as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, he held the organ scholarships at Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read Music, before studying conducting and organ at the Royal College of Music under Neil Thomson, Edwin Roxburgh and Nicholas Danby; he participated in masterclasses with George Hurst, Paul Goodwin and Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies. He graduated from the RCM with distinction and as a major prize-winner. In February 2008 Alexander was invited to participate in a competitive masterclass in St Petersburg with Alexander Polishchuk, from which he emerged as one of the prizewinning conductors. Alexander has been appointed Music Director of East London Chorus from April 2009.

Alexander is also Musical Director of Wokingham Choral Society and of Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Hospitals Music Society, a lecturer at Morley College, London and accompanist for Concordia Voices.  In the summer of 2008 Alexander was Musical Director for Figaro Opera's production of Madame Butterfly at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and he is also in demand as an animateur and workshop leader, recently working with the Can’t Sing choirs at Morley College, and leading a choral workshop in Tynset, Norway.