Iain Ledingham began as Organ Scholar at Queens' College Cambridge and after gaining his degree in music he has pursued a wide-ranging freelance career as a pianist, conductor, répétiteur, harpsichordist, accompanist and choir-trainer. He has worked for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Radio 3, and as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music where he established the Royal Academy Opera, attracting talented young singers from all over the world. He runs an annual summer school for RAM singers in Italy and has also been a guest teacher at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin.
Iain is currently Organist and Choirmaster at St James Church, Gerrards Cross. He has founded the 90-strong South Bucks Choral Society, with whom he has conducted many major choral works accompanied by excellent professional orchestras.
Iain has many years of experience in training and conducting choirs at the Royal Academy of Music and elsewhere. His repertoire includes Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat and St John Passion, Beethoven's Mass in C, Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem and Alto Rhapsody, Britten's St Nicolas, Duruflé's Requiem, Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, Fauré's Requiem, Handel's Saul, Samson and Messiah, Haydn's Creation, The Seasons, Nelson Mass, Paukenmesse, Harmoniemesse, and Theresienmesse, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, Mozart's Solemn Vespers, Requiem and Coronation Mass, Schubert's Mass in E flat, Verdi's Requiem, and Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony and Five Mystical Songs.
Throughout his career, Iain has always greatly enjoyed working with amateur choral societies as well as with church choirs, encouraging keen singers to experience the sheer pleasure and deep musical satisfaction which choral singing can bring.