PETER SIEPMANN PhD FRCO LRSM
Director of Music
Peter, is a Conductor and Organist already well known in the Nottingham area for his encouraging, enthusiastic and informed approach to rehearsal and performance.
He was educated at St Edward’s School in Oxford and the University of Nottingham, where he was awarded a doctorate in 2010.
As a Conductor, Peter has directed many of the major works of the choral repertoire with choirs and orchestras of all sizes, both amateur and professional, on the concert stage and in a liturgical setting.
His time directing the University of Nottingham Chamber Choir involved collaborations with the Orlando Consort, the London Sinfonietta and broadcasts on BBC Radio 3.
Peter became Conductor of Nottingham Bach Choir in September 2019, following Paul Hale’s twenty-nine year tenure.
Since September 2007, Peter has been Organist & Director of Music at St Peter’s Church in the heart of the city of Nottingham, where the church choir produces what the Nottingham Post has described “an outstanding standard of music-making”; the choir's singing is also regularly praised at regular visits to Cathedrals and Abbeys both around the UK and abroad.
In 2010, Peter oversaw the design, fundraising and installation of a new church organ.
Alongside his work as a Conductor, Organist and an Examiner for ABRSM, Peter has recently started working at Peterborough Cathedral as a Fundraising Officer, following sixteen years as a Music Teacher - first in the renowned department at Uppingham School, and then at Repton School as Head of Academic Music.
As a writer, he regularly provides programme notes for Naxos Records, and he is also pleased to sit on the Grant Assessment Panel of the Cathedral Music Trust.
Peter is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and a number of his organ pupils have gone on to Cathedral and University scholarships.
NEIL PAGE BA (Dunelm) FTCL LRAM ARCO
Organist Emeritus (Organist & Director of Music from 2003 –2014)
Following his initial choral experience as a choral scholar in the choirs of Durham Cathedral and Trinity College Cambridge, Neil Page studied singing as a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music. Having been Director of Music at Hurstpierpoint College and Malvern College, in 1985 he was appointed Director of Music at Uppingham School and Conductor of the 200-voice Nottingham Harmonic Society Chorus. He has conducted all the major works of the choral repertoire working with several of the principal British orchestras including the RPO, RLPO, CBSO, Halle and BBC Concert Orchestra.
He was Director of Music at St Barnabas Cathedral from 2003 – 2014, overseeing the introduction and development of the choral scholarship scheme. He has been a diploma and grade examiner for the ABRSM for over 30 years in which capacity he has toured throughout Africa and South East Asia. He is Honorary Choral Adviser to the Hong Kong Children’s Choir. In recognition of his work with youth and adult choirs he has been awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship.
