Biography
Conductor Joseph Judge is Chorus Director of Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, Artistic Director of the Exon Singers Festival, Musical Director of Chester Festival Chorus, Director of the Hallé Choral Academy, Score Reader/Orchestrator with the Northern Film Orchestra, and frequently deputises for rehearsals with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Hallé Choirs, and St George’s Singers, where he is also Vocal Coach.
He is the Choral Music Director for upcoming Alan Bennett film, The Choral (UK release 7/11/25), featuring Ralph Fiennes and directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner, where he worked closely alongside Composer George Fenton CBE. He recently worked with English National Opera and Walk the Plank for a large-scale project bringing opera to the community in Manchester.
Joseph has led session recordings for Sony PlayStation, and produced Northern Lights – an album of contemporary choral works with BBC Choir of the Year winners, Voices of Hope. As a Countertenor he continues to perform as an oratorio soloist. He was a member of the BBC Daily Service Singers, a Lay Clerk at Manchester Cathedral, and one of the inaugural Fellows of NYCGB, frequently involved with the organisation as music staff on their courses.
A graduate of the RNCM, he has a Masters with Distinction and was awarded the Mortimer Furber prize. He studied with Clark Rundell and Mark Heron, conducted the Manchester Camerata, received masterclass tuition from numerous renowned conductors and musicians, and assisted the BBC and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras.
“Absolutely great: very clear, effective and authoritative, as well as wryly good-humoured.”
Picture by Luc Hardt @ 80 Hertz Studios
