Adjudicators

GARY SIELING

Gary Sieling was born in Bedfordshire and educated at Dunstable Grammar School. He read for his BMus degree at the University of London, Goldsmiths’ College and while a student, played for the debut of the London Cantata Choir with whom he is still associated. He studied organ with Peter Moorse, Nicholas Danby at the Royal College of Music, Dr Peter le Huray at St Catherine’s College Cambridge, and Jane Parker-Smith. He was awarded FRCO in 1981 and MA in Performance from Anglia Ruskin University in 1997, studying organ with Nicholas Kynaston at Caius College Cambridge. He is now embarking on a PhD in Harpsichord Performance.

Gary was organist of Dunstable Priory and then Assistant Master of Music at Peterborough Cathedral. During his time there he was Conductor of the Peterborough Philharmonic Society, Director of the St Peter’s Singers, and Founder and Associate Conductor of the City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra. He also taught organ and piano at Oundle and Stamford  Schools. He played for the Cathedral Choir on two tours of America in addition to regular TV and radio broadcasts and recordings.

Gary is now Director of Music at Bromley Parish Church (www.bromleyparishchurch.org). He also directs the chamber choir ‘FineChants’, the larger charity chorus, the ‘Occasional Choir’  and works as a freelance organist, harpsichordist, conductor, adjudicator and examiner for the Royal College of Organists. He spent the summer of 2009 as the Music Adjudicator to the Sri Lanka Performing Arts Festival.

His latest CD recording for Priory Records from Chelmsford Cathedral features the major organ works of Stanley Vann, sometime organist of Peterborough Cathedral, and the ‘Kenneth Leighton Memorial Album’ which Gary compiled and published. Organ concert venues in this country include St Paul’s and Canterbury Cathedrals, King’s College Cambridge and Westminster Abbey. He has made ten international concert tours visiting Denmark, Germany, Italy and USA.

Gary likes to relax by messing about on narrowboats on English Waterways.

www.garysieling.co.uk

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