Daniel Moult
British musician
Daniel Moult (born 1973) is a concert organist, educator and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music.
Education
Daniel Moult was born in Manchester. He attended Manchester Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford, where he was organ scholar. While at Oxford he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists winning three of the top prizes, and was jointly awarded the University of Oxford's John Betts Organ Scholarship. He studied as a post-graduate at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where his teacher was Jacques van Oortmerssen.
Career
Daniel Moult is Head of Organ at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where he leads an organ department in the UK, with regular trips to Europe and visits from international organists, and new facilities including a purpose built organ studio and £3 million worth of new instruments. He is a trustee of the Royal College of Organists, for which he also examines, and he teaches in London through the RCO Academy.
He was organist and assistant director of music at Coventry Cathedral from 1995 to 2002. He has performed concerts throughout the UK, as well as in Europe, Australia and Asia, and has been a soloist with orchestras such as Kammerorchester Basel, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Capella Cracoviensis and the English String Orchestra. He works frequently as an accompanist for choirs such as the choir of St Peter's Church, Eaton Square.
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