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 at services. Easher also regularly plays services at St Leonard’s Church in Swithland. He also greatly enjoys performing with many ensembles and orchestras at his school, playing both Bb and bass clarinet, as well as accompanying school choirs on piano and organ. He has achieved Grade 8 distinctions in clarinet, organ and piano. 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 for 25/26 and 26/27 season, and he has completed three tours with the National Youth Orchestra as a clarinettist. He has played the organs of Coventry, Ely, St Edmundsbury, Leicester, Lincoln and Ripon to name but a few. Easher also won the Bardi Young Musician 2026, where he performed Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto on the basset clarinet in January 2026 with the Bardi Symphony Orchestra, and will be performing it again with the Rutland Sinfonia in September. He is the organist for the Bardi Orchestra when they need one at DeMontfort Hall and a member of the clarinet section with the Bardi Wind Orchestra. 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. His ambition is to become a professional musician in some capacity. Outside of music and school life, Easher enjoys travelling and long walks.