Michael Bascom

Michael Bascom is a Cranbrook-based conductor & composer, directing several choirs including the Wealden Consort, a mixed-voice chamber choir, and the West Kent Youth Orchestra. He currently serves as Director of Music at St Dunstan’s Church, Cranbrook. 

He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge,following which he attained a Master’s at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in Opera Making & Writing, on scholarship, in association with the Royal Opera House. He subsequently lived for two years in Madrid where he worked for the Orquesta Juvenil Europeo de Madrid, and continued to compose, scoring the music for the movie Echoes & Demons which premiered at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Canada in 2022. He’s recently moved to Frittenden, where he lives with his partner and two Spanish Greyhounds.