Music Director

George Parsons has been the Musical Director of the Escafeld Chorale since September 2022. George began his musical life a boy chorister at King's College, Cambridge, where he also began organ lessons. As a sixth-former he was Junior Organ Scholar at Wells Cathedral and, after further study with Jacques van Oortmerssen at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, George read music at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he was also an organ scholar. Since graduating in 2003, George has worked in music ministry for churches in London, Sheffield, and Wakefield, and in 2016 completed a PhD in Musicology.

Currently, George works as the Music Minister at All Saints Ecclesall in Sheffield, and as a peripatetic singing, violin, and piano teacher around Nottinghamshire. Based in Chesterfield, George also serves as the accompanist for both the local Rose Choir and Co-operative Choral Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.