Ian Sadler was a boy chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England.  He won the Organ Scholarship at Bristol University and was later appointed Organ Scholar for 3 years back at St. Paul’s Cathedral.  His final engagement in the UK before moving to Canada was to play the organ in the movie, ‘Chariots of Fire’.  In 1980 Ian moved to Canada following appointments in Toronto as Organist and Director of Music at Grace Church on-the-Hill and Choral Director at Upper Canada College. He has since gone on to be Organist at St. James Cathedral, Toronto, and Organist and Director of Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral London Ontario. 

In 1986 he won 1st prize at the Syracuse International Organ Competition, USA.  Recitals have since taken him to Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France (Notre Dame, Paris), Austria (St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna), Australia, the USA and the UK (St. Paul’s, Winchester and Coventry Cathedrals, Westminster Abbey, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge).  Highlights of Ian’s career include recitals at the launching of the organs at three Canadian concert halls - Singer Hall, Calgary, Toronto’s Thomson Hall and Edmonton’s Winspeare Centre, a Juno award (2001) for a CD by his Burlington Chamber Choir, the award of a Fellowship from The Royal Canadian College of Organists (2007) for the promotion of Canadian organ music, and election in 2003 to membership in Britain’s oldest music charity, The Royal Society of Musicians, founded by Henry Purcell in 1738.  

This season Ian is performing with 3 orchestras, Organ Concertos and the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony.  In January he made his first visit to Barbados to present several organ concerts and organ workshops with students from the island.  

His Cathedral Singers have recently performed at Westminster Abbey and Salisbury Cathedral.  This July they have been invited to sing for a week of services at Durham Cathedral.