Philip White-Jones

Philip was born and educated in Liverpool where he was a music scholar at Liverpool College. At the age of 8, he was awarded a place in the choir of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral where he remained as a chorister until 1995. After leaving the choir, Philip took up a place as a student at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music to study organ, piano, French horn and composition. He spent his gap year as Assistant Organist at Winchester College prior to taking up the Organ Scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Philip received both the Associateship and Fellowship diplomas from the Royal College of Organists while an undergraduate. From 2003 to July 2008, he held the joint position of Assistant Organist at Winchester Cathedral and Organist of St Swithun's School, Winchester serving for his final term as Acting Assistant Director of Music and Director of the Girls' Choir at the Cathedral. In September 2008 he took up the appointment of Assistant Director of Music at Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire where he plays for all major choral services and directs the Minster Girls' Choir and the Minster Chorale.

Recent organ recital venues have included Bath Abbey, Winchester Cathedral, Liverpool Cathedral, Chester Cathedral, St John's College, Cambridge and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. He has also worked extensively as a piano accompanist with the tenor William Kendall and with the bass Jimmy Holliday, including recitals at the Newbury Festival and Warwick Arts Centre. Works have included Schubert's Schwanengesang, Schumann's Dichterliebe, Brahms' Vier ernste Gesänge, Finzi's Let us Garlands Bring and Britten's Canticle II.

Philip is available to play for weddings, funerals and other liturgical events as well as accompanying on the organ or piano up to and including Diploma level. He is also available for teaching organ, piano, theory and paperwork for Royal College of Organists' diplomas.