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Jeremy Lloyd-Sullivan is the Assistant Director of Music at Ely Cathedral, where he accompanies, conducts and rehearses the Cathedral Choir on a daily basis. He is also Director of the Ely Cathedral Octagon Singers, school organist at the King’s School, Ely, and an accompanist to the Ely Choral Society.
Of Welsh descent but born in Surrey in 1992, Jeremy received his first musical training with the Piano at the age of eight. He first learnt the Organ with Jeffrey Gray at Caterham School, followed by Stuart Thompson and Gerard Brooks, and later obtained his ATCL performance diploma in Piano from Trinity College, London.
Jeremy studied the Organ at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Susan Landale, David Titterington and Clive Driskill-Smith, as well as Improvisation with Gerard Brooks, Harmonium with Anne Page and Choral Conducting with Patrick Russill. Alongside his studies, Jeremy performed in masterclasses with Olivier Latry, Bine Bryndorf and Eric Lebrun, and was later awarded the C H Trevor Prize and Gladys Aitken Award. He performed on two of the Academy’s residential tours to Neresheim Abbey in Southern Germany, and also played in the opening concert on the new organ by Orgelbau Kuhn in the Duke’s Hall. During this time, Jeremy also performed with The Kantanti Ensemble and the University of London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Masayuki Carvalho. Jeremy also combined his studies with Organ Scholarships at Methodist Central Hall Westminster and The London Oratory.
After graduating from the Royal Academy of Music with a first-class degree, Jeremy embarked on an Organ Scholarship at Peterborough Cathedral, followed by a further two years at York Minster as the Assisting Organist, where he continued his organ studies with Gordon Stewart and performed with a variety of local ensembles including the Ebor Singers, the York Musical Society and the York Chapter House Choir.
In September 2018, Jeremy took up the position of Assistant Director of Music and Sub Organist at Rochester Cathedral. In addition to being the principal organist for all services at the Cathedral, he directed the Cathedral’s Voluntary Choir, who, in addition to singing for numerous services throughout the year in Rochester, sang for services at St. George’s Chapel Windsor, and the Cathedrals of St. Paul’s and Southwark. Jeremy combined this work with additional roles as Assistant Director of Music to the Rochester Choral Society, Organ Advisor to the Rochester Diocese, and also as an Organ tutor and school organist at The King’s School, Rochester. From January until August 2022, Jeremy spent two terms as the Acting Director of Music at the Cathedral, for which he had oversight of the whole music programme.
Jeremy is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and holds the LRAM teaching diploma from the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed live on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and has given organ recitals across the country in venues including Westminster Abbey, Reading Town Hall, and the Cathedrals of St. Paul’s, St. Albans, Westminster and Southwark.
Aside from his musical activities, Jeremy’s other interests include cycling, classic cars and old technology.