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Biography
Joel Colyer is an organist, multi-instrumentalist and conductor based in London, UK. He studied at Chetham’s School of Music with first studies in both organ and viola under Christopher Stokes and Sebastian Müller respectively and then graduated with a degree in chemistry from Imperial College London.
Joel is currently the Director of Music at St Francis Church, Welwyn Garden City, where he has responsibility for the church’s choir and musical tradition. Formerly, he held the organ scholarships at Portsmouth Cathedral, Chingford Parish Church and Imperial College London and through those roles has accompanied or conducted choirs at many of the UK’s most well known cathedrals. He combines his post at St Francis with a busy calendar of freelance work at other churches, holding supporting roles as Assistant Organist at St Mary Magdalene, Enfield, and Assisting Organist at Chingford Parish Church. Joel is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists.
Aside from church music, Joel works as a freelance musician in London and the South East. He is currently the Musical Director of the Enfield Brass Band, and accompanist to the South West Songbirds, based in Earlsfield, London. As a freelance string player, he regularly plays for concerts with choral societies both on violin and viola. Whilst studying, Joel was a section principal of the Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra and performed with them at numerous prestigious venues in the UK and overseas. Joel also teaches piano, organ violin and music theory privately from a base in Chingford, north-east London.
Joel has worked extensively in amateur and semi-professional musical theatre, with credits both on keyboard and as a musical director. He is a skilled keyboard programmer and has arranged and orchestrated for several musical theatre productions. Joel also plays a variety of brass instruments, currently performing with the Regent Community Brass Band as a cornet and baritone player.
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