A Cause for Caroling

Jeremy Summerly studied at Oxford University and was a postgraduate musicology student at King’s College, London. He founded Oxford Camerata in 1984, and was conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford 1990-6. He has conducted over 50 CD recordings spanning music from Gregorian chant to the present day and toured Europe, USA, Japan, Southern Africa, and Australia; he received the European Cultural Prize in 1995, made his Proms conducting début in 1999 and his Berlin Philharmonie début in 2005. He is also a freelance record producer and writer/presenter for BBC Radios 3 and 4, where he was a Studio Manager 1982-9.

Jeremy is the Royal Academy of Music’s senior Academic Studies Lecturer, having been a lecturer since 1989, head of Academic Studies from 1996-2007 and Head of Undergraduate Programmes from 1999-2007. He was appointed Sterndale Bennett Lecturer in Music in 2007 and he has been Director of Music at St Luke’s, Chelsea since 2010.

Jeremy Summerly studied at Oxford University and was a postgraduate musicology student at King’s College, London. He founded Oxford Camerata in 1984, and was conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford 1990-6. He has conducted over 50 CD recordings spanning music from Gregorian chant to the present day and toured Europe, USA, Japan, Southern Africa, and Australia; he received the European Cultural Prize in 1995, made his Proms conducting début in 1999 and his Berlin Philharmonie début in 2005. He is also a freelance record producer and writer/presenter for BBC Radios 3 and 4, where he was a Studio Manager 1982-9.

Jeremy is the Royal Academy of Music’s senior Academic Studies Lecturer, having been a lecturer since 1989, head of Academic Studies from 1996-2007 and Head of Undergraduate Programmes from 1999-2007. He was appointed Sterndale Bennett Lecturer in Music in 2007 and he has been Director of Music at St Luke’s, Chelsea since 2010.