Biography
Joseph Judge is a versatile conductor and choral director, who works with an array of UK choirs and ensembles, and collaborates on film and media projects.
He is Chorus Director of Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, Artistic Director of the Exon Singers Festival, Musical Director of Chester Bach Singers and Chester Festival Chorus, Director of the Hallé Choral Academy, Vocal Coach of St George’s Singers, and is frequently engaged to conduct the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé, and Hallé Youth Choirs.
On set and in the studio, Joseph was the Choral Music Director for the Alan Bennett film The Choral, featuring Ralph Fiennes and directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner, alongside Composer George Fenton CBE. He continues to fix and direct singers and players for film and media projects, and has conducted the Northern Film Orchestra, also working as their Score Reader and Orchestrator.
He produced Northern Lights – an album of contemporary choral works with BBC Choir of the Year winners, Voices of Hope, and has worked with English National Opera and Walk the Plank for a large-scale project bringing opera to the community in Manchester.
A graduate of the RNCM, he has a Masters with Distinction and was awarded the Mortimer Furber prize. He studied with Clark Rundell and Mark Heron, conducted the Manchester Camerata, received masterclass tuition from numerous renowned conductors and musicians, and assisted the BBC and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras.
“Absolutely great: very clear, effective and authoritative, as well as wryly good-humoured.”
Picture by Luc Hardt @ 80 Hertz Studios
