Adrian Bawtree was educated at Christ"s Hospital before he attended the Royal Academy of Music and was organ scholar at Street Bride"s Church, Fleet Street. He went on to study at Worcester College, Oxford under David Sanger. He won a silver medal from Worshipful Company of Musicians and for achieving the highest in his Fellow of the Royal College of Organists examination
He took a postgraduate degree in orchestral conducting from Royal College of Music.
From 2009 until 2011, he served as the director of music at Christ"s Hospital. Foreign 22 years, he has been involved in the music industry. He has toured the Czechoslovakian Republic, Hungary, and United States of America. He has also worked with British Broadcasting Corporation Singers.
Bawtree worked as a church organist in a few churches in England.
He is the musical director of Worthing Choral Society, and the conductor of the Weald Choir of Crawley. He succeeded Bruce Grindlay as Director of Music after Grindlay left Christ"s Hospital Music School to become headmaster of Sutton Valence School in Kent.
In April 2014, Bawtree was appointed Assistant Sub-Organist of Rochester Cathedral, with responsibility for playing services at weekends and major festivals. From September 2015, he has been the Second Assistant Organist of Canterbury Cathedral.
Bawtree occasionally conducts orchestras as well as choirs, and he composes music as well as conducting.
He composed a piece for the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Nelson named England Expects. Bawtree has also composed a piece called Footsteps along the Road. Adrian Bawtree also owns and operates Conducting Business.
