13 July 2025 at 20:00

George Herbert (UK)

George Herbert was born in Manchester in 2001, and his passion for music was kindled in earnest as a chorister at Manchester Cathedral. He has a varied freelance life as a pianist, organist and singer. His debut album as a piano accompanist, Rodrigo Ruiz’s ‘Venus and Adonis’ with Grace Davidson, won the Spanish prize ‘Melomano de Oro’ in January 2025. He works regularly as an accompanist at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and University of Oxford. He is a freelance member of the music staff at English National Opera, and played various keyboard instruments in the orchestra for ENO’s recent productions of Peter Grimes and The Handmaid’s Tale. George studied German and Music at the University of Cambridge, where he was also Organ Scholar and Assistant Organist with St John’s College Choir. As well as accompanying the choir’s daily sung services, he helped to train the singers and regularly conducted the choir. He recorded six albums with the choir as accompanist, soloist and conductor, and accompanied two international tours and five radio broadcasts. In November 2021 George conducted St John’s College Choir in its Advent Carol Service live on BBC Radio 3. He is now Assistant Organist at New College, Oxford, where he accompanies and helps to train the college choir, as well as developing the college’s music outreach programme. In 2023 George won the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition. Recent recital venues include Westminster Abbey; Thaxted Festival; Oundle International Festival; the Three Choirs Festival; King’s, St John’s and Trinity Colleges in Cambridge. He looks forward to upcoming engagements at St Thomas Fifth Avenue, New York; Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin; and the Portico of Ards, Portaferry. George is also active as a freelance singer, working regularly with Tenebrae. He is passionate about inter-disciplinary work, and recently collaborated with composer David John Roche on heavy metal project ‘Metal Soar’ in Merthyr Tydfil. George is a hobbying jazz trumpeter and a passionate environmentalist.