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Adam Assen

Musical Director

Adam Assen

Adam joined us as Musical Director for the autumn term 2025.  He is the Director of Music at Caterham School, lives locally and has a BMus (Hons) degree.

Adam has had considerable experience of conducting choirs since 1997, and has toured extensively around Europe, working with many local choirs in joint performances. Tours include: Paris, Copenhagen, Brussels, Krakow, Rome, Barcelona, Prague, Caen, Reims, Cologne, Bonn, Amsterdam, Delft, Geneva, Vienna, Salzburg, Venice, Budapest and more.

He has also conducted choirs of various types at several notable venues: including Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Alban’s Abbey, St. James’s Church Piccadilly, St. John’s Smith Square, Chapel Royal at Hampton Court. In Europe- St. Peter’s Basilica Vatican City, Brussels Cathedral, St. Nicholas’s Church Prague, Monserrat Basilica, La Madeline Paris, St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s Krakow and countless cathedrals and churches for both mass and concerts.

He also appears in the bookChoral Conducting- Philosophy & Practice by Dr Colin Durrant”.




Our previous Music Directors:

Edward Caswell, Iain Cooper, Julian Thomas,  Sarah Latto and Paul Provost.


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