Biography

Judith Ward is a former academic and choral scholar of Keble College, Oxford.

She is the Director of Music at St Mary's and St Leonard's Churches, Wallingford, where she conducts the main and junior choirs, plays the organ and leads an instrumental group. She is also the Musical Director of Chorus Amicorum, a choir that deputises for cathedral choirs in the holidays. She sings in a number of chamber choirs and is an associate conductor of Priory Voices.

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She has composed for church choirs, congregation and a range of instrumental forces. Her choral works have been performed across the UK in venues such as York Minster, Ely and Wells Cathedrals and Tewkesbury Abbey as well as in France, Sweden, the USA and Peru. Some of her choral music can be heard on the 2025 Siglo de Oro release "Wisdom and Strength" and has been described as "nicely crafted" in Gramophone. A secular choral work The Swallow was shortlisted in the 2023 Voces8 Composition Competition.

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She taught Music in secondary schools for several years. She was also a Professional Studies tutor at Reading University for 3 years and assisted on the PGCE Secondary Music course. She now teaches electronic keyboard and piano for the Oxfordshire County Music Service. She developed the keyboard syllabus for MTB Exams and produced the exam handbooks for Pre-grades up to Grade 5.

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Judith sings in the Philharmonia Chorus and studies with Christine Cairns. She plays violin in a local orchestra, the Langtree Sinfonia.