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Jonathan Wikeley

Jonathan Wikeley studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Exeter College, Oxford; and was a choral scholar at Truro Cathedral. He is Director of Music at All Saints Church, Fulham, one of London’s foremost church choirs.

 

Jonathan is advisor and choral editor for Hal Leonard Publishing, where he oversees the publishing of choral music throughout Europe. He works as a freelance journalist, composer and music arranger, including commissions from bodies as diverse as the BBC Singers, the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music and Whitstable Choral Society. He has written for publications in Britain and the USA, and has spoken about early music for BBC Radio 3. In former years he was editor of Early Music Today magazine.

 

He conducts several ensembles in London, and has accompanied Ladysmith Black Mambazo at the Royal Opera House. His arrangements and compositions have been broadcast on Radio 3 and 4, and published and performed around the world including, recently, at the Dubai BBC Proms. During lockdown his arrangements were sung by a choir of over 20,000 singers on Gareth Malone’s Great British Home Chorus.