The choir

The present church choir, one of the finest choirs of its type in the UK, is an excellent mixed-voice, auditioned, SATB, voluntary choir of about 30 members led by Joshua Ryan, Director of Music.  

The choir’s repertoire of sacred music ranges from the 16th to the 21st centuries.

As well as singing at weekly services, the choir also performs occasional concerts and has undertaken tours in Italy and France as well as broadcasting on TV and radio.

Church music for the month

If you are interested in joining the choir

We welcome committed, talented, and energetic musicians to become part of our thriving auditioned, amateur choir and church community in the parish of St Alfege, Greenwich.
 
Weekly commitment:
Thursdays: 19:30-20:45 (Rehearsal)
Sundays: 9.15-12.30 (Rehearsal and Choral Eucharist) 
Last Sunday of the month: 15:00 -17:00 (Rehearsal and Choral Evensong)
 
What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to improve sight-reading, singing skills and general musicianship 
• Option to occasionally sign-out for rehearsals or services 
• Occasional paid weddings and funerals for confident singers
• A thriving choir social life 
• To be part of a supportive church community in the heart of Greenwich 
• To give or take part in recitals and concerts as part of the church’s successful weekly programme

To apply please email the Director of Music, Joshua Ryan 

Choral scholarships

The PCC, Vicar and Churchwardens are pleased to announce that we have recruited four choral scholars to join our choir for the 2025/26 academic year. Find out more here.  

Joshua Ryan, Director of Music

Australian conductor, collaborative pianist, and organist Joshua Ryan is a prizewinning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. He is Director of Music of St Alfege Greenwich, Organist of St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate (the National Musician’s Church), accompanist of Dulwich Choral Society, and pursues a busy portfolio career alongside these positions. He is establishing himself as one of his generation’s most exciting and dynamic musicians. His recordings and live performances have been lauded as “impeccable” (British Music Society), “beautiful, wonderful, and full of colour” (BBC Radio 3), and “offers great clarity and panache” (Music Web International).  

Joshua’s musical interests are diverse and wide ranging. He has worked across Europe and Australia as a soloist, collaborative pianist, and continuo player with a vast array of conductors, singers, choirs, and ensembles including the BBC Singers, Academy of Ancient Music, London Mozart Players, Hampstead Collective, Sydney Chamber Choir, Allegri Ensemble, Siglo de Oro, Philippe Herreweghe, John Butt, Edward Gardner, William Vann, Iain Ledingham, Rachel Podger, Margaret Faultless, Eamonn Dougan, Nicky Spence, Thomas Hobbs, and Nicholas Mullroy. Joshua has also featured on four critically acclaimed discs of music by Vaughan Williams, Elgar, and Holst as the accompanist with the Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and William Vann recorded for the SOMM and Albion labels. In early 2024, he recorded a fifth disc with the BBC Singers featuring previously unrecorded choral works by English composer Michael Berkeley. 

He is the curator of The Mulliner Project, a significant research project on the reinterpretation of the music of The Mulliner Book on a range of historical and modern instruments. The focal point of this project is a collection of recordings exploring different interpretations of little-known works by early English composers. For more information you can visit themullinerproject.com to read about and listen to the project. 

Throughout his studies and career Joshua has received numerous prizes and awards. He is a Bicentenary Scholar of the Royal Academy of Music, a holder of the prestigious DipRAM award, one of only two organists to receive The University of Sydney’s University Medal, a Tait Memorial Trust awardee, and an Australia Council for the Arts awardee.  For more information and recordings please visit joshua-ryan.co.uk 

Ben Banks, Assistant Organist

Ben graduated in the summer of 2021, achieving first class honours in his undergraduate degree in Music from The University of Oxford. During his time there, he enjoyed accompanying and conducting Oriel College’s Chapel Choir, directing the College’s Music Society, and playing in numerous recitals and concerts around the city. He also sang in The University’s chamber choir, Schola Cantorum. He has held positions at Peterborough, Portsmouth and St Edmundsbury Cathedrals, as well as accompanying the Christ Church Cathedral girl’s choir while at university.

Ben is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and an ATCL in piano. He is also training to be a chartered accountant and enjoys hiking and football.