Ealing Choral Society is delighted to announce that Peter Asprey will be taking up the post of Director of Music from April 2022 onwards.

Peter Asprey is in demand both as a conductor, chorus master, singer and singing teacher. He is the Director of Music at St Sepulchre-Without-Newgate, the National Musicians’ Church in the heart of the City of London and is the Musical Director of Henley Choral Society. He has been a guest Chorus Master for the London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, Brighton Festival Chorus, The Whitehall Choir and the St Endellion Festival Chorus, working alongside conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Andrew Davis and Edward Gardner. Former posts include Musical Director of the Berkshire Youth Choir. Peter was a Choral Exhibitioner at Clare College, Cambridge and a founder member and singer in the Renaissance Music vocal ensemble Stile Antico, achieving during his time with the group a number of awards including a Gramophone Award for Early Music, a Grammy nomination and two Diapason d’Or. He also sang on a European Tour with Sting for his Dowland lute song project Songs from the Laybrinth. He completed his studies at the Royal College of Music having been a Choral Scholar in the choir of Clare College, Cambridge. He has given educational evenings on music at the Royal Academy of Art in London and master classes on Renaissance Music at the Music College in Dubrovnik. He has a particular interest in music and faith and has given talks on the spirituality of classical music and retreats on Haydn’s Creation. He is a singing teacher at Eton College.

Peter will honour his commitment to Henley Choral Society for next term and will start his appointment with ECS at the start of the Summer term, beginning April 2022. The June 2022 concert will be a celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and a wonderful concert to work on with our new MD.

Emily Elias will continue as our guest MD for the spring term and will take us through to our performance of the Messiah on March 19th 2022.

The search to replace our former music director Jonathan Williams, who stepped down in 2020, was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, and put on hold for several months until we could return to in-person rehearsals. We were very excited about the high quality of all the applicants, and are delighted to welcome Peter to the Ealing Choral Society community.