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Edward Dean

Edward Dean (b. 1991) is renowned as an expert on the harmonium and its repertoire, and is in great demand as a harmoniumist both in the United Kingdom and further afield. Edward is Director of Music and Monastic Organist at Worth Abbey, and is a graduate of both the Royal College of Music and the Eastman School of Music (Rochester NY, USA).

At Worth Abbey, Edward accompanies the Benedictine monks daily for Lauds, Conventual Mass and Vespers; he also has responsibility for developing and conducting the Abbey Choir which sings for Sunday Masses and special services at the Abbey. Last summer, Worth Abbey Choir sang as a part of the renowned AROSS concert series at Saint-Sulpice, Paris, accompanied on the organ by Karol Mossakowski and Axel de Marnhac.

Edward earned his Master of Music degree studying under Nathan Laube at the Eastman School of Music and was supported generously during his time there by the Ann Anway scholarship and the Charles R. Nicholls Memorial Scholarship. In July 2013 he graduated from the Royal College of Music in London with First Class Honours, gaining the Harold Darke prize for organ performance at the same time. At the Royal College he studied interpretation and improvisation with Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer Choplin (Saint-Sulpice), with David Graham (Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street), and harpsichord with Terence Charlston. In between his studies in London and the USA, he studied privately with Andrew Dewar in Paris.

Edward has held organist positions at the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris, St Bride’s Church Fleet Street and Holy Trinity Church Sloane Square. He was awarded the first ever Organ Scholarship at Lancing College, Sussex. 

Edward is in high demand as a harmonium player. In September 2025, he joined the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in performing Franz Schreker’s Kammersymphonie on tour (Finland, Germany, Switzerland), and at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall – recorded live for BBC Radio 3. In July and August 2026, he played alongside the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Glyndebourne under Robin Ticciati as a part of the Glyndebourne Festival; this production of Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss, 1916) was also performed at the BBC Proms (2026) and was received with critical acclaim. He has forthcoming engagements with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Glyndebourne Sinfonia. 

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