Patrick Russill

Patrick Russill (born 9 September 1953) is an English choral conductor and Professor of Organ in the Royal College of Music.

[1] He was appointed a Professor of the University of London in 2022,[2] and in 2023 he was awarded the Medal of the Royal College of Organists (its highest honour) in recognition of his distinguished achievement in choral conducting and pedagogy, and in church music.

[3] Educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Dorset (1965–1972), he was organ scholar (1972–1975) at New College, Oxford, where he gained a first class honours degree in music.

[6] As an organ recitalist he has played at major venues in the UK including York Minster, Westminster Cathedral, St Alban's Abbey and Birmingham Town Hall, as well as throughout Europe and Asia.

[10] He was Musical Editor of the Catholic Hymn Book (1998) and has contributed to the revised New Grove, The Cambridge Companion to the Organ (1998),[11] and Geschichte der Kirchenmusik (Laaber-Verlag, 2011 and 2013).