Robert Quinney

Robert Quinney is Organist of New College, Oxford. In addition to the daily direction of New College’s world-famous choir, his work comprises teaching, lecturing and examining, as a Tutorial Fellow of the college and an Associate Professor in the University’s Faculty of Music. He has conducted New College Choir in concert at home and abroad: in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, on tours of the USA, and at Wigmore and Cadogan Halls in London. The choir’s ‘consistently radiant sound’ was praised in a Gramophone review of their 2019 release of music by the sixteenth-century English composer John Sheppard.
He maintains a parallel career as a solo organist, and is a prolific recording artist: his discs of organ music by J. S. Bach, Elgar, Dupré, Wagner and Brahms (and several CDs with Westminster Abbey Choir and The Sixteen) have been widely acclaimed. In February 2017 he made his debut at the Royal Festival Hall with an all-Bach recital, and in August of the same year appeared for the first time as a soloist in the BBC Proms.