Wayne Weaver – Assistant Organist (Graduate Organ Scholar)

Wayne is an alumnus of Wolfson College, Cambridge where he recently read for a PhD in music history. His ongoing research explores the sonic and social cultures of late eighteenth-century Jamaica.

Having previously studied at Edinburgh University, Wayne qualified as a secondary school music teacher in 2013 and was accepted as an Associate of the Royal College of Organists the following year. Since then, he has held various academic and musical performance roles including as a teacher of music at Lourdes Secondary School in Glasgow, Organist and Director of Music at St Ninian’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, Assistant Director of Music at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, and Graduate Organ Scholar at Girton College, Cambridge.

Wayne has toured widely performing in churches and concert venues in the UK and abroad and has appeared as a solo keyboardist and singer on several CD recordings. As part of an increasingly busy portfolio career, Wayne lectures on issues relating to jazz at King’s College London and edits rare sources of historical sheet music.