A few details about Simon
His concerts have included tours to Denmark, Norway and Hungary and venues such as St. John's College Cambridge; Merton College Oxford; the Vendsyssel Festival. Simon has also given recitals or played for services at the cathedrals of Truro, Chester, Chichester, Lincoln, Guildford and Southwell. Simon is also in demand as a choral director, and was conductor of the Carlyon Singers as well as working with the St. Austell Choral Society. With the Carlyon Singers he presented a series of concerts of little-known Russian Orthodox choral music which he researched in St Petersburg. Simon has frequently worked with the East Cornwall Bach Choir as organist or conductor.
He has also worked with New Cornwall Opera and Duchy Opera and as the Education and Training Officer for R.S.C.M. Cornwall he directed choral rehearsals and workshops across the county. He also recently presented a workshop devoted to the music of Victoria, Alonso Lobo and Guerrero in the magnificent venue of Buckfast Abbey for the South West Early Music Forum and has also performed regularly at the DuMaurier Festival and the Lewes Festival. Simon has also given concerts and recitals as part of Fowey Royal Regatta, Dartmouth Royal Regatta and the Funchall 500 Tall Ships Regatta at Falmouth. He also recently directed a performance of the eight-part Requiem by Duarte Lôbo in the fine acoustic of St. Bartholemew's, Lostwithiel.
Simon has been researching music by Messiaen, Duruflé, Bach and the composers of the Grand Siècle, exploring the links between theology, spirituality and liturgical organ music, whilst the project Visions of Eternity is a new CD which Simon recently recorded on the magnificent Drake organ in Totnes, Devon. Throughout the year Simon has also lectured during classical music themed cruises for various shipping lines as well as running choral programmes. Recently he has visited Cuba, Chile, Peru and Ecuador, in addition to Scandinavia and Russia. In Spring 2009 he travelled from Mauritius to the Seychelles, Maldives, and India, whilst in 2010 he sailed to Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, as well as Iceland and Greenland. 2011 started with a voyage from Barbados, via Trinidad and French Guiana to Brazil.
Simon has also become an enthusiastic and intrepid explorer, managing to fit in extended visits to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Israel and the Occupied Territories and Jordan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, as well as virtually the whole of South America!
Recently appointed Director of Music at St. Mark's, Broomhill, Simon is also researching into Messiaen at the University of Sheffield.
