All about Neil Valentine - Organ Project Animateur

Neil studied at York University and Trinity College of music and was a member of Southbank Sinfonia in 2007. He is an Associate Musician of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra working across all of the BSO Participate Strands and the Creative Director of the University of Winchester Music Centre.

He has delivered music projects, workshops and performances with the Philharonia Orchestra, LSO, RPO, London Music Masters, Hatfield Chamber Music Festival, Spitalfields Music, Music for Youth, BBC SO, BBC Proms, Hatch My Ideas!, Voces8, Wigmore Hall and St Paul's Sinfonia.

 He works as a freelance music educator in primary and secondary schools, nurseries, hospitals, care homes and with community groups of all types. He has led a number of music projects supporting older people suffering from Dementia including Music for a While, a project between the BSO and Arts and Health South West, Music for Life, with Wigmore Hall and Being the Music with the University of Winchester and Hampshire Hospitals. Music for a While was shortlisted for the Arts & Health Award at the 2017 RSPH Health and Wellbeing Awards. 

He is passionate about music making in all settings and with all groups of people. He believes everybody is musical and that anyone can make music with anyone else. He is privileged to be able to facilitate this process; it is a source of unending inspiration and enjoyment.