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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel  (1685 - 1759)

James Sherlock

James Sherlock was Director of Music at Hampstead Parish Church from 2012 to 2017. He currently studies conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. 

In the past year he has made conducting debuts with the English Chamber Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, and collaborated with many of today’s major artists including Dame Felicity Lott, KS Angelika Kirchschlager, Raphael Wallfisch and Dame Shirley Bassey. He was selected by the London Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras as the young British conductor to take part in their International Artists Academy in Berlin and Aix-en-Provence.

James studied at Trinity College Cambridge, the Guildhall School of Music, the Georg Solti Accademia and the Franz Schubert Institut. He has won top prizes including the Royal Overseas League Piano Competition and the ROSL award for accompanists, Das Lied International Song Competition, the BBC Performing Arts Trust, Award for Young Concert Artists and Gold Medallist at the Marcello Galanti International Organ Competition. James has been a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and a Samling Artist. His recordings have won awards from Gramophone, BBC Music and International Piano Magazines.