Who's who

Tristan Weymes

Director of Music

Tristan is an accomplished conductor and organist from South West London. He took over as Director of Music at St Mary's in January 2023. He has worked with a variety of choirs, running the Elysium Consort and Chorus towards termly concerts, as Conducting Fellow of the Hertford Choral Society, and was Associate Conductor of the North Cotswolds Chamber Choir last year. He has led several youth choirs, including at Bloxham School, and recently became an Assistant Leader with the London Youth Cambiata Boys’ Choir. Tristan is determined to provide opportunities to musicians of all backgrounds. He recently set up a Children’s Choir at St Luke’s, Woodside, where he was Director of Music before St Mary's, and has led singing workshops in the UK and abroad for children and adults alike.

He is a Choral Conducting MA student at the Royal Academy of Music, who recently graduated from Oxford University, and studies under Patrick Russill. At university, was Conductor of the Trinity College Chapel Choir, Oxford University Chorus, Turl Street Arts Festival Orchestra, and during this time also took up a Young Conducting Scholarship with Sing for Pleasure in 2019. He was previously Director of Music at St Luke’s, Woodside, where he set up a Children’s Choir with the aim of developing a chorister tradition there.

Tristan is also a singer, having been a member of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, as well as the London Youth Choir and Inner Voices. He has performed solo work in venues such as St-Martin-In-The-Fields and St Paul's Knightsbridge, and regularly performs with freelance consorts.