Our musicians
Tristan Weymes
Director of Music
Tristan graduated with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music’s prestigious Choral Conducting MA course, studying under Patrick Russill, where he earned the Thomas Armstrong Award, DipRAM, and a Regency award for all-round excellent studentship during his time there. Tristan has conducted the BBC Singers, Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir, and Carice Singers, amongst others.
He has been Chorus Master for projects including Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ (LYC & Bach Choir under David Hill, 2024), Mahler’s ’Symphony of A Thousand’ (Tiffin & RPO under Ed Gardner, 2025), and Holst’s ’The Planets’ (LSSO & Guildhall, under Matthew Lynch, 2025) and premiered Oliver Leith’s 'Garland’ Bold Tendencies in 2025. In 2024, he placed 2nd in the ‘Magister Inside’ International Choral Conducting Competition (Arezzo, Italy), and won the 'Special Prize from the Choir’ in the final of the 2024 ‘Gheorghe Dima’ International Conducting Competition (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Previously, he was Conducting Fellow of the Hertford Choral Society, (2022) Associate Conductor of the North Cotswolds Chamber Choir (2021), and a ‘Sing for Pleasure’ Young Conducting Scholar (2019).
His current roles include being Director of Music at St Mary the Virgin, Merton Park, Conductor of UCL and Guildford Chamber Choirs, the Walthamstow Singers, and London Youth Cambiata Boys’ Choir. He is also Director of Choral Music at Wilson’s School and a Singing Teacher at Tiffin School. Tristan is also Deputy Artistic Director and Choral Lead of Elysium, an organisation which aims to provide musical opportunities to young people who don’t have access to them. His work with youth choirs has involved roles with Tiffin School Choir, Inner Voices, Highbury Youth Choir, Frideswide Voices of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, as well as abroad. Tristan’s recent workshop engagements have led him to work with a variety of community and youth choirs: he has run workshops for organisations including the London Youth Choirs and Bach Choir, and regularly works with Nadine Benjamin MBE towards her Christmas ‘Everybody Can’ concerts.
Assistant Director of Music
Kate Ashby
Kate Ashby enjoys a busy career as a professional singer and teacher. While a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, she co-founded Stile Antico - an unconducted vocal ensemble, specialising in sixteenth-century repertoire. With the group, she has performed on five continents and recorded fourteen discs for Harmonia Mundi and two for Decca. Stile Antico's discs have received every major European classical award and been nominated three times at the GRAMMY awards.
For many years she was a member of the choir at All Saints, Margaret Street, where she learnt how to appreciate high church liturgy, Victorian neo-Gothic architecture, and how to sing through thick clouds of incense, She now sings regularly with many of London's top professional church choirs, and with the lay clerks of St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.
As well as a performer, Kate is a keen and experienced teacher, working with children of all ages at Orchard House Prep School and St Cecilia's Secondary School. She regularly gives workshops on ensemble singing, for example with Stile Antico at Dartington International Summer School, The Rodolfus Choral Courses and with the National Youth Choir. In 2022, she worked with Trinity College of Music to help create materials such as demo tracks for their new singing syllabus. She studies singing with Berty Rice. When not singing, she is generally to be found shuttling her son to and from the Temple Church, where he is a chorister.
Phoebe Tak Man Chow
Kate Ashby enjoys a busy career as a professional singer and teacher. While a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, she co-founded Stile Antico - an unconducted vocal ensemble, specialising in sixteenth-century repertoire. With the group, she has performed on five continents and recorded fourteen discs for Harmonia Mundi and two for Decca. Stile Antico's discs have received every major European classical award and been nominated three times at the GRAMMY awards.
For many years she was a member of the choir at All Saints, Margaret Street, where she learnt how to appreciate high church liturgy, Victorian neo-Gothic architecture, and how to sing through thick clouds of incense, She now sings regularly with many of London's top professional church choirs, and with the lay clerks of St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.
As well as a performer, Kate is a keen and experienced teacher, working with children of all ages at Orchard House Prep School and St Cecilia's Secondary School. She regularly gives workshops on ensemble singing, for example with Stile Antico at Dartington International Summer School, The Rodolfus Choral Courses and with the National Youth Choir. In 2022, she worked with Trinity College of Music to help create materials such as demo tracks for their new singing syllabus. She studies singing with Berty Rice. When not singing, she is generally to be found shuttling her son to and from the Temple Church, where he is a chorister.
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