I was an undergraduate and graduate student at St John's College, Cambridge, and spent a year as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard. Since 2007 I have taught in the Faculty of Classics and been a Fellow of Emmanuel College. In 2012-14 I held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin and Rostock University.

As an organist, singer and choir director I have held posts at Winchester College, Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), Harvard Memorial Church, and St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, and spent five years as chorus master of the Cambridge Philharmonic Society. I have been a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists since 1999 and was Organ Student at St John’s College, Cambridge, from 1999 to 2002, playing for several of the CDs of English choral music recorded with Naxos. I have been Organist/Assistant Director on an Eton Choral Course most years since 2003. At Emmanuel I am the Fellow responsible for non-academic music in College, including oversight of Chapel music and the Music Society.