Max Barley

Max Barley is Director of Music at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London. He was a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge and Organ Scholar at St John’s College, Oxford, where he read Modern Languages. He studied conducting in Munich, where he was a scholar at the Stiftung Maximilianeum.

Max now pursues a busy freelance career as choral conductor and accompanist.

As well as being Director of Music at Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, he is Music Director of Choir of the 21st Century and Eltham Choral Society and Principal Conductor of the Guildford Chamber Choir. Max was the Director of the Berlin Radio Choir’s Liederbörse (education programme) 2021/22 which culminated in conducting two concerts in the Berlin Philharmonie in May 2022. He was also Chorus Master for Opéra de Baugé in July 2022. Other recent guest- conducting includes the Rodolfus Choir and London Schools Symphony Chorus. Max is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and recently gained a Distinction for his MA in Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, under Patrick Russill, and organ with David Titterington.