CALLUM ALGER is currently the Director of Music at St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, in addition to teaching organ and piano at Shrewsbury School. He recently gained a distinction in his Advanced Postgraduate Diploma (Professional Performance), and prior to this, graduated with a first-class honours degree in Music Performance, where he studied the organ with Henry Fairs and David Saint, and choral conducting with Paul Spicer. 

During his studies, he was accompanist to the critically-acclaimed Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, accompanying the choir on their most recent CD Rosa Mystica with SOMM Recordings. Callum was fortunate to spend a semester studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ in Leipzig under the tutelage of Martin Schmeding.

He has previously held positions at Westminster Cathedral, St Thomas' Church, Stourbridge, Portsmouth Cathedral (in conjunction with The Portsmouth Grammar School), and St Matthew's Church, Northampton.

Callum has performed extensively as a soloist in the UK. He won first-prize at the IAO/RCO Organ Playing Competition (2018) in Peterborough, and Dame Gillian Weir Messiaen Competition (2018) in Birmingham, and was a finalist in the St Albans International Organ Competition. Recent recital venues have included Westminster Abbey, St John’s Smith Square and St Paul's Cathedral. He is a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, an Associate of Trinity College, London, and has performed on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and was a Making Music Selected Artist 2020-21.

In 2019, Callum released his debut CD Klangreden with Regent Records, in which his music-making was described as “unfailingly elegant” [Choir and Organ]. His newest release, Maestoso, is recorded using the 1895 Walker organ of St Matthew's Church, Northampton, and features the major works of Sir Edward Elgar and Bairstow.