Jeremy Jepson Countertenor Conductor Organist

Conductor

Jeremy took up his first directing appointment at the age of 16 at St Thomas's, Dudley, after which he moved to Carlisle Cathedral to take up the post of Alto Lay Clerk, where he was invited to direct the boys of the Cathedral Choir from time to time. He was also appointed Musical Director of Carlisle Choral Society. Whilst studying for a BMus at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, he directed Academy choral and sight-singing classes and assisted in the direction of the Academy Chamber Choir, as well as directing his own ensembles.


 After a period as a Lay Clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, he took up the then newly-created post of Director of Music at Northampton RC Cathedral. Here he established a lively programme of choral music involving 50 singers across three choirs and presented concerts, liturgical performances of several Renaissance Masses and choral workshops throughout the diocese. He later combined this with the post of Acting Director of Music at All Saints', Northampton, where he directed the choirs in daily choral activity, produced a recording of French choral music on the Lammas label and arranged and directed a tour to Chichester Cathedral as well as teaching, coaching and running a concert series. After completing postgraduate studies at the RCM he took up a similar role at St Bartholomew's Church, Penn, near Wolverhampton (not far from his home town) before moving back to the East Midlands.

 

Jeremy is currently Director of Music at All Saints', Stamford, where he has been instrumental in expanding the work of the choir and the musical life of the church and has been Musical Director of Stamford Choral Society since September 2009.