Joshua Simões is a prize-winning organist based in London. Organist and Assistant Director of Music at His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court, Joshua is in the midst of a portfolio freelance career as soloist, accompanist, continuo player, repetiteur and teacher. Before moving to Hampton Court, Joshua has held positions as Chapel Organist of Harrow School, and organ scholar at the London Oratory. Generously supported by the Eric Thompson Trust and the Countess of Munster trust, Joshua has won all the major awards at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Prof. David Titterington and Bine Bryndorf, and was a prize winner at the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition.

Joshua enjoys a busy performing schedule as a soloist and has recently given recitals at St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Liverpool Cathedrals, Southwark Cathedral and has appeared as soloist at several music festivals in the UK including, Presteigne, Chiltern Arts Festival, Charles Wood festival of music.

A devotee of contemporary music, Joshua made a critically acclaimed CD with the Chapel Choir of King’s College London, for Delphian Records, of ‘Organ and Choral music by Edward Nesbit’. The recording received five stars in ‘Choir & Organ’ magazine and was a Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’, the latter stating that “Joshua played superbly with virtuoso use of the organ”. Joshua has since collaborated and performed world premieres with composers such as Morgan Hayes, Robin Haigh, Simon Rowland-Jones, and Carmen Ho, appearing with the Orion Orchestra, Strand Consort, Gothic Opera and Epiphoni. He has.featured on BBC Radio 3 and Radio Ulster.