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Ophelia Amar is a French-British musician based in London. She is an active performer both in France and in the UK. Some recent appearances include solo performances at King’s College Cambridge, St George’s Hanover Square, the Temple Church and Grosvenor Chapel in London, Reading Town Hall, and St Albans Cathedral for the 2023 St Albans International Organ Festival. She has a particular interest in music from lesser-known French composers from the 1920s-1930s, contemporary music and chamber repertoire with organ.
Since January 2024, Ophelia has been the Administrator of the St Albans International Organ Festival. An Associate of the Royal College of Organists, she plays regularly for services in London. She also has extensive experience teaching the piano and the organ to students of all ages and backgrounds.
Ophelia graduated with a Master of Music (2023) and an Advanced Diploma (2024) in organ under the direction of David Titterington at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded several prizes, including the ABRSM EU Scholarship award, the Dorothy Cooper Prize and the Stephen Bicknell Prize. She was also the holder of the Nicholas Danby Scholarship in 2021-2023. She was the Pidem Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music for 2024-2025. Before coming to the UK, Ophelia followed a complete course in organ with Éric Lebrun at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (South-East of Paris), as well as in piano with Christine Fonlupt, and was awarded a Premier Prix in both disciplines.
In parallel to her musical activities, Ophelia graduated in History, Political Science and Musicology from the Sorbonne in Paris. A keen historian, she undertook Postgraduate studies in a double Master’s degree at Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich in 2018, carrying out extensive research on the post-war contemporary music festival musica viva in Munich. Her interest in Arts management then led her to follow an MSc in Cultural Management at HEC Paris Business School. Before coming to London, she was an Executive Assistant in a musicians’ agency in Paris (Kajimoto Concert Management).
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