Julian Thomas – organ

The Programme

Julian Thomas – organ

Fantasia and Fugue in B flat

Rhapsody in D flat, Op 17 No 1

Prelude and Fugue in A, BWV 536

Chant de Mai

Pièce Héroïque

The Artist

Julian Thomas joined Tonbridge School in September 2007 as Choirmaster, and has subsequently also become Head of Academic Music.

He began his musical training as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and then as a music and academic scholar at Charterhouse, before going up to Cambridge as Organ Scholar at Jesus College. After graduating, he moved to Lincoln Cathedral as Second Assistant Organist, becoming a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 2000. For the next six years, Julian was the Assistant Organist and Director of the Girls’ Choir at Norwich Cathedral, during which time he regularly appeared on both radio and television accompanying and conducting choirs. In addition to this, he also directed the Edington Music Festival, including overseeing the 50th festival and a number of significant choral commissions.

Alongside his primary roles at the school, Julian is also a published composer, with Encore Publications, and he maintains an active career as a freelance organist, deputizing at several London churches, including the Chapel Royal and the Guards’ Chapel, and also working with choirs such as Canticum and London Concert Choir. As a solo recitalist, recent performances have included Bath Abbey, Christchurch Priory, Westminster Abbey, Southwark, Portsmouth and Westminster Cathedrals, and his first solo CD, Élévation (recorded on the Marcussen organ of Tonbridge School), was released on Regent Records in 2017.