Geoffrey Tuson began studying the organ in Godalming, Surrey, with John Belcherat the age of 14. Since 2004, he has been a student at the Royal College of Music in London, studying with Margaret Phillips, and has recently begun his postgraduate MMus course there now studying with David Graham and Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin. He has been awarded the Harold Darke prize for excellence in organ performance.
Studying at the RCM has afforded him opportunities to play famous instruments in France, Holland, North and East Germany as well as participating in masterclasses with internationally renowned organists such as Dame Gillian Weir. In 2006 he won the Kent County Organists’ Association's inaugural festival in Maidstone, earning a recital in Canterbury Cathedral which took place in April 2007. In April of this year he played alongside the RCM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. In addition to his RCM studies, he has recently attained his Associateship diploma from the Royal College of Organists and gave a recital in this year’s Three Choirs Festival in Worcester.
Geoffrey has held the post of Organist and Choirmaster at St. Andrew’s Church, Frimley Green in Surrey since 2004. He is also a peripatetic piano and organ teacher at Salesian College in Farnborough, Hampshire and has been the accompanist for the Surrey Heath Choral Society since January 2009.
