Geoffrey Webber

Composer / Performer

Geoffrey Webber was appointed Organist at Hampstead Parish Church in 2019 before becoming Director of Music in 2022. He is General Editor of the Church Music Society and Associate Artistic Director of Armonico Consort. His musical education began as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and he read music at Oxford University, initially serving as Organ Scholar at New College under Edward Higginbottom. He later became Assisting Organist at Magdalen College as well as University Organist; he also served as Acting Organist for spells at both New College and Magdalen. From 1989 to 2019 he was Precentor and Director of Studies in Music at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, releasing many recordings with the college choir of varied repertoire from ranging from chant from the first millennium to music by contemporary composers such as Judith Weir and Julian Anderson. During this time he also taught extensively for the Faculty of Music, and from 2011 to 2019 he served as Course Principal and Director of the MMus degree in Choral Studies. Geoffrey’s publications include North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude (OUP 1996) and, as co-editor, The Cambridge Companion to the Organ (CUP 1998).

Biographical Details

Works by Geoffrey Webber

Festival performances of works by Geoffrey Webber

World premiere

LFCCM 2022

Works performed by Geoffrey Webber

Festival commissionCall for Scores submissionWorld premiereLondon premiere

Festival performances by Geoffrey Webber

Festival commissionCall for Scores submissionWorld premiereLondon premiere

LFCCM 2023

LFCCM 2022

LFCCM 2018

LFCCM 2016

LFCCM 2007