A recent Choral Conducting MA graduate with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music under Patrick Russill, Tristan is Director of Music at St Mary the Virgin, Merton Park, Conductor of the UCL Chamber Choir, and of the Walthamstow Singers. Alongside these, he is an Assistant Leader with the London Youth Cambiata Boys’ Choir, and was Aural and Musicianship Lead and Choir Director at Youth Music Centre until July 2024. He 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.

Tristan has worked with a variety of chamber choirs, including a position as Associate Conductor of the North Cotswolds Chamber Choir in 2021-22, and runs the Elysium Consort, Chorus and Youth Choir towards regular project performances. His rehearsal style is empathetic towards the singers, working to develop blend and emotional intensity within a performance. He has worked with groups including the BBC Singers, the Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir, Fourth Choir, Carice Singers, New London Singers, and the RAM Chamber Choir. He was also Conducting Fellow with Hertford Choral Society 2022-2023. He worked with Nadine Benjamin MBE and Burntwood School Chamber, towards a performance of Poulenc ‘Gloria’ at Nadine’s ‘Everybody Can!’ Christmas 2023 event, and will appear at her 2024 event too.

His work with youth choirs has led him to co-Chorus Master the London Youth Junior and Cambiata Boys’ Choirs towards a performance of Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ with the Bach Choir, under David Hill. He is an Assistant Leader with London Youth Cambiata Boys’ Choir, and worked with Youth Music Centre in North London. His roles with Inner Voices, Highbury Youth Choir, Frideswide Voices of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, mean that he is very experienced working with young people, and has held workshops in the UK as well as abroad, having led one for a children’s choir in Slovakia in 2019. Tristan is determined to provide opportunities to musicians of all backgrounds - he recently set up a Children’s Choir at St Luke’s, Woodside, where he was Director of Music until 2023. He has also been a Section Leader with the National Youth Boys’ Choir.

At Trinity College, Oxford, he was Conductor of the Trinity College Chapel Choir, who he led towards a recording session in March 2022. In that same month, he led the Oxford University Chorus to a performance of Dvorak’s Stabat Mater at the University Church. He also co-ran the Turl Street Arts Festival Orchestra, and during this time also took up a Young Conducting Scholarship with Sing for Pleasure in 2019. He also ran two Gilbert and Sullivan Shows (Iolanthe 2019 and Pirates of Penzance 2019), the first of which was an award winning production at the G&S Festival in Harrogate 2019.