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Jeremy Rouse is Assistant Director of Music at Bedford School. He runs the academic side of the department and conducts one of the orchestras and the Choral Society (most recently in a performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers with the English Cornet and Sackbutt Ensemble). After reading music at Girton College, Cambridge where he was Organ Scholar, Jeremy worked for several years as a full-time church musician, holding posts at the English Church in Geneva and Wells Cathedral, where he toured, recorded and broadcast with the Cathedral Choir. Jeremy is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

Jeremy’s diverse musical activities in recent years have ranged from playing the organ for services in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral to composing incidental music to Kafka’s Metamorphosis, accompanying a jazz band on a tour to the Cayman Islands, acting as Musical Director for Jesus Christ Superstar and making a recording on a reconstructed Tudor organ, the soundboard of which had functioned as a barn door for a few centuries.