Ashley Grote Plays Johann Sebastian Bach at Selby Abbey

Ashley Grote is Master of Music at Norwich Cathedral and a fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

Grote grew up in Colchester and attended Eld Lane Baptist Church where he sang in the choir and first played the organ. He joined the Choir of King's College, Cambridge at the age of eight and returned to King's in October 2001 as an organ scholar.

He won first prize in the 1999 Royal College of Organists Young Performers' Festival. In 2000 he was the first organist ever to win a place in the keyboard final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition.

Ashley Grote was also Assistant Organist at Westminster Abbey, and Assistant Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral.