Samuel Hudson - Conductor & Director of Music

Samuel Hudson became Conductor and Director of Music of Worcester Festival Choral Society in 2019, on his appointment as Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral. He is also Artistic Director of the Worcester Three Choirs Festival. 

Since then, Samuel has led WFCS in numerous performances of major choral repertoire including Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. In 2024 he conducted the Worcester Cathedral Choir at The Office for The Royal Maundy, attended by HM Queen Camilla.

Prior to his appointment in Worcester, Samuel was for eight years Organist & Director of Music at Blackburn Cathedral. He also previously held posts including Director of Chapel Music at Girton College in Cambridge, College Organist at Haileybury School in Hertfordshire, and Assistant Organist at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in London.

Samuel trained as an organ scholar and music undergraduate at Girton College, Cambridge, and went on to spend over two years as Senior Organ Scholar at Wells Cathedral in Somerset. Samuel has also worked as an Assistant Artist Manager at Hazard Chase Ltd in Cambridge, with specific responsibility for groups such as The Tallis Scholars and I Fagiolini, and violinist Matthew Trusler. Samuel became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in January 2008.