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Organ; Choral Conductor
Julie Ainscough studied Organ, Piano and Composition at Trinity College of Music, London (and won the prestigious Julie Ainscough has received critical acclaim for her playing of organ music from the late Renaissance and the Baroque eras, and she has a particular affinity with the music of the Spanish, French and North German schools. She is also reputed highly as a performer of organ music by the major French romantic and Twentieth Century composers - César Franck and Jehan Alain in particular. Performances given by Julie Ainscough before large audiences in such major Spanish venues as Salamanca "New" Cathedral and the vast Benedictine Abbey Church at Valle de Los Caídos have been received with considerable enthusiasm. She has been invited to perform in the Périgord region of France (also on historic instruments).
A talented and versatile choral conductor, she has a very particular interest in polyphonic music by the great masters of the Spanish Renaissance. Having resigned from the post of Director of Music at Christ Church, West Wimbledon, London SW20 - after five happy and productive years - to develop her career as a freelance organist and much sought-after teacher of organ, piano and composition, Julie Ainscough took charge, from Advent Sunday 2002, of a fine, three-manual "Father" Willis organ when she commenced her new appointment as Organist and Choirmaster of the Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin at Ewell, near Epsom in Surrey. Piano pupils' achievements include extensive success in competitive music festivals and places at leading universities and conservatoires to study music, while prize-winning organ pupils have attained worthwhile organ scholarships (most notably, the 2001-2004 Organ Scholarship at Exeter College, University of Oxford, was awarded to Timothy Burke (now Co-director of Music at All Saints' Parish Church, Kingston-upon-Thames), who also achieved an excellent pass in the January 2001 examination for the Associate Diploma of the Royal College of Organists (A.R.C.O.) at the age of eighteen years (winning the Durrant and Sowerbutts prizes) and also passed the recital section of the Fellowship Diploma (F.R.C.O.) examination in July 2001.
Further information about Julie Ainscough's activities as a professional musician are available from her personal website. "...a carefully-articulated performance of real stature and authority..."
(DORKING ADVERTISER, Surrey).
Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for Composition in the year before her admission to Fellowship there). Post-graduate study followed at the University of London (Goldsmiths' College, Degree of Master of Music in Composition), and also with David Sanger, the world-renowned concert organist and teacher. She also holds the Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists.
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