Greg Smith is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied organ, piano accompaniment and conducting.  He holds the Associate Diploma of the Royal College of Organists, in which he won the Sawyer and Durrant prizes, and is a Licentiate of Trinity College, London.

Born in Kent, his early musical training began with David Flood and Michael Harris at Canterbury Cathedral, and whilst a student at the Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, Greg won many prizes as an organist and pianist throughout the country.  In 1990, one year after joining the RNCM, he was the Under 21 winner of the Paisley International Organ Festival, which led to recitals at Clare College, Cambridge; Coventry Cathedral; Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, and the Royal Festival Hall, London.

Since this success, Greg has given recitals as an organist and accompanist at many venues throughout the U.K., including the Cathedrals of Carlisle, Manchester, Newcastle, Ripon, Rochester, Sheffield, St. Giles’, Edinburgh and Truro, as well as at Cartmel Priory, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and York Minster.

Greg is currently on the music staff at Ashville College in Harrogate, Principal Conductor and Chorus Director to the North Yorkshire Chorus, Organist and Choirmaster at Northallerton Parish Church and Musical Director of the Northallerton Male Voice Choir.

During their 2006/2007 season Greg acted as Accompanist with the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus.