Rupert Gough leads a busy career as both a conductor and organ recitalist combining his role as Director of Choral Music and College Organist at Royal Holloway, University of London, with numerous concert engagements.

 Rupert began his musical training as a chorister at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace and at the Purcell School on a piano scholarship. He subsequently held Organ Scholarships at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, Rochester Cathedral, and Norwich Cathedral before spending 11 years as Assistant Organist at Wells Cathedral. Rupert appeared regularly with the choir in concerts all over the world, on the radio, television and can be heard on many different recording labels including six discs for Hyperion.

 As a concert artist Rupert regularly appears in Europe and America. Last year he was featured as a soloist in the Hong Kong Arts Festival and gave two performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. During 2001 he won Third Prize at the St. Alban’s International Organ Competition and has also been a Finalist in the Royal College of Organist’s “Performer of the Year” competition. Rupert has been involved in some thirty commercial recordings as an organ soloist, accompanist, harpsichordist and conductor and has regularly been broadcast on British, European and American radio stations. Most recently he recorded the complete organ works of Sir Percy Buck (former Organist of Wells Cathedral) in Dublin for Priory Records alongside directing a recording of Buck’s choral works on the same label.

Rupert is the founding Musical Director of the Sheldon Consort (previously Wells Cathedral Chamber Choir). This semi-professional group performs regularly in London and the West Country with soloists including Emma Kirkby and James Bowman.  Rupert enjoys regular orchestral conducting with various traditional and period instrument ensembles. Recent highlights include conducting the Elgar Cello Concerto with Julian Lloyd Webber and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Wayne Marshall.

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