Tristan is an award-winning freelance conductor, singer, organist, arranger, and orchestrator from London.
Tristan graduated with Distinction and DipRAM from the Royal Academy of Music’s prestigious Choral Conducting MA course, studying under Patrick Russill, where he earned the Thomas Armstrong Award, and a Regency award for all-round excellent studentship during his time there. Prior to this, he graduated from Trinity College, Oxford University, in 2021, where he conducted Trinity College Chapel Choir, the Oxford University Chorus, and the Turl Street Arts Festival Orchestra. In 2024, he placed 2nd in the ‘Magister Inside’ International Choral Conducting Competition (Arezzo, Italy), and won the 'Special Prize from the Choir’ in the final of the 2024 ‘Gheorghe Dima’ International Conducting Competition (Cluj-Napoca, Romania).
He is Director of Music at St Mary the Virgin, Merton Park, Conductor of University College London Chamber Choir, Assistant Leader with the London Youth Cambiata Boys’ Choir and recently became conductor of the Walthamstow Singers. Tristan is also Deputy Artistic Director and Choral Lead of Elysium, an organisation which aims to provide musical opportunities to young people who don’t have access to them. His work with youth choirs has involved roles with Tiffin School Choir, Inner Voices, Highbury Youth Choir, Frideswide Voices of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, as well as abroad. Tristan’s recent workshop engagements have led him to work with a variety of community and youth choirs: he has run workshops for organisations including the London Youth Choirs and Bach Choir, as well as recently working with Nadine Benjamin MBE towards her 2023 ‘Everybody Can’ concert. In October 2024, he co-chorus mastered the London Youth Junior and Cambiata Boys’ Choir towards a performance of Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ with the Bach Choir, under David Hill.
Tristan conducts the Elysium Consort and Chorus, who perform alongside the new Elysium Youth Choir towards major projects, including Haydn’s ‘Nelson Mass’, Chilcott’s ‘On Christmas Night’, and Quartel’s ‘A Winter Day’. He has worked with a variety of choirs, including a position as Associate Conductor of the North Cotswolds Chamber Choir in 2021-22. Tristan is determined to provide opportunities to musicians of all backgrounds. He established a Children’s Choir at St Luke’s, Woodside, where he was Director of Music until 2023, and has led singing workshops in the UK and abroad for children and adults alike.
Whilst an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, he was Conductor of the Trinity College Chapel Choir, who he led towards a recording session in March 2020. In that same month, he led the Oxford University Chorus to their second concert under his leadership, performing Dvorak’s ‘Stabat Mater’ at the University Church. Alongside these roles, he co-ran the TSAF Orchestra, and took up a Young Conducting Scholarship with Sing for Pleasure in 2019. He also ran two Gilbert and Sullivan Shows (Iolanthe and Pirates of Penzance, both in 2019), the first of which was an award winning production at the G&S Festival in Harrogate 2019.
Tristan’s singing work has involved solo performances at venues such as St Martin in the Fields and St Paul’s Knightsbridge, and as a backing singer onstage with London Youth Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall. In March, he made his debut at St John’s Smith Square, as a Bass soloist in Mozart ‘Requiem’ alongside the Purcell Singers, and the Southbank Sinfonia. He was previously a member of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, as well as the London Youth Chamber Choir and Inner Voices. He sings with Laurelin Voices, Antiphon, and the Arcadian Singers, and is also a member of the Purcell Singers and the BBC Symphony Chorus. In addition to this, Tristan works as a singing teacher and chorister coach at Tiffin School.
His arranging work has featured music for acapella groups, jazz bands, and choirs. His arrangement of Imagine Dragons’ ‘Natural’ for London Youth Cambiata Boys’ Choir culminated in a performance at Milton Court in December 2023, and has further engagements lined up for 2024. His acapella work has been heard on Spotify over 14,000 times, having been performed by Oxford’s ‘In the Pink’ acapella group.
Tristan is immensely grateful to the Royal College of Organists (Leonard Freestone Scholarship), the Organists’ Charitable Trust, and the Stanley Vann Foundation for their generous financial support during his postgraduate studies.
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