organist and educator

JULIAN HAGGETT is a renowned recitalist, educator, and church organist. He has made numerous appearances at festivals and concert venues in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, and East Asia.

 

As an educator, Julian engages with audiences in schools and the community often bringing the organ to new audiences through outreach projects and workshops. He is director of the Norwich Diocesan organ scholarship programme and the St Peter Mancroft Church student organ scholarship programme. Beyond Norfolk, Julian provides organ scholar tuition at the University of Cambridge which includes tutoring for Royal College of Organist diploma examinations. In addition, he is an Accredited Tutor for the Royal College of Organists. Before taking up his role in Cambridge, Julian was an associate lecturer in organ performance studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Julian is passionate about the heritage of our pipe organs in the UK, helping to preserve and maintain instruments for use in Today's world. He has worked as an organ adviser on numerous projects and is an adviser to the DAC in the Diocese of Norwich.

 

A former organ scholar at St Hild & St Bede College, University of Durham, and a church musician, Julian trained with James Lancelot at Durham Cathedral and subsequently served on the music staff at Chichester Cathedral before taking up the post of organist at St Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich, in 2009.

 

Julian Haggett studied organ with Henry Fairs at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and with Anne Page, Cambridge.

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