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Paul
Ayres was born in London, studied music at Oxford University, and now works
freelance as a composer & arranger, choral conductor & musical director,
and organist & accompanist. He was accompanist of Harlow Chorus for 11
years, and is currently accompanist for the London Pro Arte Choir and assistant
director of music at St George’s Church Hanover Square.
He conducts the Walbrook Singers and the London College of Music Chamber Choir. Paul’s compositions usually involve words – solo songs, choral pieces, music for theatre productions – and he is particularly interested in working with pre-existing music, from arrangements of folksongs, hymns, jazz standards and nursery rhymes to ‘re-compositions’ of classical works, as in Purcell’s Funeral Sentence, 4A Wreck and Messyah. His work has been commissioned by many performing groups, including the BBC Singers, Texas Lutheran University, Harrow Choral Society, Essex County Music Services, The Esoterics (Seattle) and the Air Concertante (Denmark). Paul leads music education workshops for children, plays piano for improvised comedy shows and has given many solo organ recitals in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, North America and Australia. Please visit his website to find out more. |
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