Paul Ayres was born in London, studied music at Oxford University, and now works freelance as a composer & arranger, choral conductor & musical director, and organist & accompanist. His compositions usually involve  words - solo songs, choral pieces, music for theatre productions - and he is  particularly interested in working with pre-existing music, from  arrangements of folksongs, hymns, jazz standards and nursery rhymes to  're-compositions' of classical works, as in Purcell's Funeral Sentence, 4A  Wreck and Messyah.

As well as City Chorus, Paul is the regular conductor of the London College of Music Choirs and the Walbrook Singers, and the associate accompanist of Crouch End Festival Chorus. He has led many education workshops for children, played piano for improvised comedy shows and musical theatre, and has given solo organ recitals in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, North America and Australia.

Please visit www.paulayres.co.uk to find out more.