Victor is a Senior Fellow of the North and Midlands School of Music (Snr FNMSM), has a Certificate in Sacred Music Studies from the Royal School of Church Music (Cert RSCM), a Fellow of the Academy of St Cecilia (FASC) and a Licentiate of the Guild of Musicians and Singers (LGMS). He is a Fellow of the Independent Society of Musicians (FISM), a member of the Brighton and District Organists Association and Honorary Organist to the local branch of the Guild of Servers of the Sanctuary.

After learning piano and organ at school, he became Assistant Organist at Amersham Parish Church in Buckinghamshire at the age of fifteen whilst helping out at various local churches. After moving to Surrey he was appointed Organist and Choirmaster at St John’s, West Byfleet and thereafter progressed as Organist and Director of Music of various large Parish Churches including St Martin’s, Dorking, St Michael and all Angels, Brighton and Eastbourne Parish Church where he spent some fifteen years.

St Mary the Virgin, Eastbourne

He has given organ recitals at The Meeting House, University of Sussex,in the Brighton Festival Fringe, at St Mary’s, Eastbourne and nationally. His composition ‘Thi Son Naylid’ was performed at the Eastbourne Festival and his arrangement of ‘Holy babe, sleeping there’ at the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols. His anthem, ‘A Wedding Prayer’ has proved popular with brides to be. He arranged the relevant parts of Schubert’s ‘Deutsche Messe’ for four part choir and organ for use with Common Worship.

He has undertaken research at the University of Sussex into the development of early Roman Oratorio and Renaissance music with a particular interest both in the performance practice of Italian Renaissance music and the Counter-Reformation forces which influenced its development and spread throughout Europe. At this time he directed the Early Music choir, Lux Aeterna.

Victor is known as a choral workshop leader using both sacred and secular, classical and popular repertoire including events for the former Sussex Church Music Foundation, the Royal School of Church Music and the Seaside Harmonies Community Choir. He helped to broaden the Eastbourne Festival of Arts and Culture as a Director and now assists in planning and curating various concert series.

Victor at the new Organ at S Nicolas, Pevensey