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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. Recent appearances include recitals at Leeds Cathedral, Westminster Methodist Central Hall, St George’s Hanover Square and St Michael’s Cornhill in London, Troyes Cathedral, France, Holy Trinity Hereford as part of the 2025 Three Choirs Festival, King’s College Cambridge and St Albans Cathedral. In September 2025 she played at the Royal Festival Hall to accompany dance performances by companies Rambert and LA(HORDE). She has a particular interest in music from lesser-known French composers from the 1920s-1930s, contemporary music and chamber repertoire with organ.
An Associate of the Royal College of Organists, Ophelia is the Assistant organist at St Mary’s with St George’s German Lutheran Church in London and plays regularly for services at Notre-Dame-de-France church in Leicester Square, the French Protestant church in Soho Square, and Christ Church Spitalfields. She is also the organ tutor at The Latymer School, and combines her musical activities with working for the St Albans International Organ Festival and Jonathan Cohen’s Arcangelo.
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 the Pidem Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music for 2024-2025. She was also the holder of the Nicholas Danby Scholarship in 2021-2023. 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.
While in France and in parallel to her musical activities, Ophelia graduated in History, Political Science and Musicology from the Sorbonne in Paris and LMU in Munich, and in Arts Management from HEC Paris Business School. She undertook research on the contemporary music festival Musica Viva in Munich, and continues her musicological work today with a commissioned biography of fin-de-siècle French violinist Charlotte Vormèse, for a new research center which will open its doors later in 2026 in the Sables-d’Olonne, France.
Ophelia is interested in possible associations between classical music and other forms of art, which was at the centre of a recent project around organ music and stained-glass windows designed by Marc Chagall (visible on: www.beyond-the-light.com).
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