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Biography
Joel Colyer is an organist, multi-instrumentalist and conductor based in the London & South East region of England, UK. He studied the organ and viola at Chetham’s School of Music under Christopher Stokes and Sebastian Müller respectively and then graduated with a degree in chemistry from Imperial College London.
Joel is currently the Interim Assistant Director of Music and Sub-Organist at Rochester Cathedral, UK. Before this, he was the Director of Music at St Francis Church, Welwyn Garden City, and held organ scholarships at Portsmouth Cathedral, Chingford Parish Church and Imperial College London. Through those roles he has accompanied or conducted choirs at many of the UK’s cathedrals. He combines his post in Rochester with a busy calendar of freelance work as a conductor and multi-instrumentalist. Joel is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists and holds the Archbishops’ Certificate in Church Music of the Guild of Church Musicians.
Aside from church music, Joel is currently the Musical Director of the Enfield Brass Band, and the Senior Band of London Metropolitan Brass, 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 and has performed with brass bands in the London & Southern Counties region on cornet, trombone and baritone.
