Easher Austin

Easher Austin is a 15-year-old music scholar at Loughborough Grammar School and Organ Scholar at St James the Greater Church, Leicester where he accompanies the choir. Easher also regularly plays services at St Leonard’s Church in Swithland. He has played the organs of Coventry, Ely, St Edmundsbury, Leicester and Ripon Cathedrals and St John's College, Cambridge as well as the organs of Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. He has achieved Grade 8 distinctions in clarinet, organ, piano and music theory and achieved full marks in his clarinet ARSM diploma. Easher is the youngest ever member of the British Clarinet Ensemble, where he plays bass clarinet on tours in both the UK and abroad. He is also the principal clarinet of the CBSO Youth Orchestra, and he has completed three tours in 2026 with the National Youth Orchestra as a clarinettist. He played principal bass clarinet with the NYO on their BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM broadcast. Easher won the Bardi Young Musician 2026 competition, where he performed Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto on the basset clarinet with the Bardi Symphony Orchestra, and will be performing it again with the Rutland Sinfonia in September. Another of his passions is for composing; teaching himself from the age of 9 after being inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. He has twice been awarded Highly Commended in the BBC Young Composer Competition and was the youngest ever composer to submit an entry into the National Youth Brass Band of GB Young Composer competition, for which he was also awarded Highly Commended. Outside of music, he enjoys long walks and travelling.