St John's was delighted to welcome Ben Woodward as Organist and Director of Music in January 2008.
Ben was born in Staffordshire, and was educated at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and was then Organ Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. Immediately after Cambridge, Ben moved to New York City, and was Assistant Organist at Christ Church Greenwich, CT, and latterly Director of Music at St Mary's RC Church in Stamford, CT. Here he directed a professional choir and made several recordings including a world-premiere recording of a Mass by JD Heinichen (1683-1729), which he edited himself from source. Much reknowned as a continuo player, he is a member of the New England Baroque Soloists, with whom he was visiting professor of harpsichord at Williams College, Boston USA, in 2008.
Ben has relaunched and re-established our regular concert series alongside creating a new and powerful collaboration between the Tell-tale Opera Company, the Fulham Camerata under the aegis of St John's Music Association.
He lives in Peckham and alongside its musical life enjoys bare-knuckle bike riding in London.