Organ Recital: Charlie Warren

Charlie Warren is Director of Music and Organist at St George’s Church, Beckenham, leading its voluntary choir and choral scholars, and managing a weekly Friday and Saturday recital series. He is co-director of Hesperos Choir alongside Chris Breeze and working with artistic director Daisy Syme-Taylor. He is a music bookseller trading as Charles Warren Rare & Antiquarian Music.

He was organ scholar of Merton College, Oxford for the duration of his studies for the BA in Music, graduating in 2015. During this time he worked with directors Benjamin Nicholas and Peter Phillips in the chapel, and played for thrice weekly services, concerts, recordings, and tours to Sweden and the United States. Following this he took up organ scholarships at St Paul’s Knightsbridge and St Mary’s Battersea, and in 2019 received the Diploma of Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, having studied with William Whitehead and Stephen Farr. He was organist of St Francis of Assisi RC Church, Notting Hill, from 2017-2021, working with director James Dixon and the two voluntary choirs of adults and children. He worked at Travis & Emery Music Bookshop from 2017-2024, including three years as manager of the shop.