Tristan Weymes
Conductor: UCL Chamber Choir
Tristan graduated with Distinction and DipRAM from the Royal Academy of Music’s prestigious Choral Conducting MA course, studying under Patrick Russill, where he earned a Regency award for all-round excellent studentship during his time there. Prior to this, he graduated from Trinity College, Oxford University, in 2021, where he conducted Trinity College Chapel Choir, the Oxford University Chorus, and the Turl Street Arts Festival Orchestra. He is Director of Music at St Mary the Virgin, Merton Park, Conductor of University College London Chamber Choir, Assistant Leader with the London Youth Cambiata Boys’ Choir and recently became conductor of the Walthamstow Singers. 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 Boys’ 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, as well as recently working with Nadine Benjamin MBE towards her 2023 ‘Everybody Can’ concert.
Tristan conducts the Elysium Consort and Chorus, who perform alongside the new Elysium Youth Choir towards major projects, including Haydn’s ‘Nelson Mass’, Chilcott’s ‘On Christmas Night’, and Quartel’s ‘A Winter Day’. He has worked with a variety of choirs, including a position as Associate Conductor of the North Cotswolds Chamber Choir in 2021-22. Tristan is determined to provide opportunities to musicians of all backgrounds. He established a Children’s Choir at St Luke’s, Woodside, where he was Director of Music until 2023, and has led singing workshops in the UK and abroad for children and adults alike.
Whilst an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, he was Conductor of the Trinity College Chapel Choir, who he led towards a recording session in March 2020. In that same month, he led the Oxford University Chorus to their second concert under his leadership, performing Dvorak’s ‘Stabat Mater’ at the University Church. Alongside these roles, he co-ran the TSAF Orchestra, and took up a Young Conducting Scholarship with Sing for Pleasure in 2019. He also ran two Gilbert and Sullivan Shows (Iolanthe and Pirates of Penzance, both in 2019), the first of which was an award winning production at the G&S Festival in Harrogate 2019.
