Steven Grahl enjoys an exciting and varied career as both an organist and conductor. Since 2001 he has held the post of Organist & Director of Music at St Marylebone Parish Church, London, where he is custodian of the 1987 Rieger Organ (the product of a unique collaboration between the church and the Royal Academy of Music) and director of the church’s fine professional choir. Under Steven’s leadership music at St Marylebone has been significantly developed and enhanced, including the establishment of a children’s choir, organ scholarship and the evening recital and ‘Music after Mass’ concerts series. Particularly noted for its performances of Viennese and Romantic mass literature, St Marylebone’s choir maintains an eclectic repertory which includes the annual commissioning of a new anthem.

Since 2007, Steven has also held the new position of Assistant Organist at New College, Oxford. He plays for the daily choral services in the 14th century Chapel and is responsible for a choral outreach scheme, delivering high quality singing to children in three Oxford primary schools. A member of the Oxford University Faculty of Music, Steven undertakes undergraduate teaching in techniques of composition, keyboard skills and analysis, in addition to his work as Assistant Director of the New College Choir. His playing has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Choral Evensong and Early Music Show, and on French Radio from the Ambronay Festival and he has played continuo with the choir in Cyprus, Estonia and Italy amongst other destinations. Steven plays fortepiano on the recent release of Haydn’s Creation with the Oxford Philomusica, and organ continuo on the forthcoming release of J.S.Bach’s Six Motets.

Appointed Principal Conductor of the Guildford Chamber Choir in 2006, Steven has directed the choir in a wide variety of repertoire and founded the Guildford Chamber Orchestra and period instrument ensemble Guildford Baroque. Plans are currently underway for a major commissioned work to mark the choir’s 30th Anniversary in 2010.