Roxanne Gull

Roxanne read Music at Cambridge University, UK, where she graduated with a first class degree and the Canon Greville Cooke prize. She was Organ Scholar at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and at Lincoln Cathedral, where she was also Musical Director of the Lincoln Cathedral Chamber Choir. With Christ’s College Chapel Choir, she directed and played for major tours to Europe, the USA and Australia and accompanied three recordings on the Regent label. After graduating, she moved to Leicester, where she now works as a teacher, conductor and accompanist.

Since 2013, Roxanne has been Musical Director of Leicester University Chamber Choir, during which time the choir has recorded two CDs (with a third in the pipeline), and toured regularly in the UK and abroad. In addition to LUCC, she has worked with church choirs in Leicester and Leicestershire, and was closely involved with the foundation of a new chamber choir at De Montfort University, as well as conducting a number of Christmas concerts for English Heritage. She has also mentored student conductors, led choral conducting workshops, and has been a tutor in choral conducting on the Jennifer Bate Organ Academy.

Roxanne is Artistic Director and co-founder of Leicester MusicFest, a music education charity working to create musical opportunities for young people. As organ teacher at English Martyrs’ Catholic School, she has worked on the development of an organ education scheme, widening access to the organ for young people of all backgrounds. She has overseen and advised on a number of organ scholarship schemes at Leicester churches, and also runs a busy private teaching practice. She is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, and an occasional choral composer: her Preces & Responses for upper voices are in regular use at Lincoln Cathedral and Christ Church Cathedral,
Oxford.