Darren Hogg was born and educated in Birmingham. He trained at Birmingham Conservatoire from 1989 to 1993 studying organ, harpsichord and piano accompaniment with David Ponsford and David Saint.

Darren is currently organist at Halesowen Parish Church, having previously held posts at St Augustine’s Church, Edgbaston, and St Alban’s Church, Conybere Street, Birmingham.

He is also one of two Organists at Lodge Hill Crematorium, Selly Oak, Birmingham. He also deputises at Birmingham Cathedral, Blue Coat School and St Mary’s Church, Warwick, and is Accompanist/Assistant Director of Music for Birmingham Choral Union, Solihull Chandos Choir and the Quinborne Choir, and deputises as Accompanist for the City of Birmingham Choir and Birmingham Festival Choral Society.

He was Accompanist/Assistant Director of Music for the Midland Music Makers Grand Opera Society from 1992-2002. He has performed with many other societies in the Midlands, including the Birmingham Bach Choir, the Canoldir Male Voice Choir and the Heart of England Singers. He has featured as Organist on BBC One Songs of Praise, Radio Two Sunday Half Hour, and Radio Four Daily Service.

Darren has won various competitions, including the 1991 Birmingham and Midland Institute (B.M.I.) Organ Performance Prize, and the 1992 Gordon Clinton English Song Competition Piano Accompanist Prize.

Darren regularly gives recitals. Past venues have included, Lichfield Cathedral, Birmingham Cathedral, Leominster Priory, Tewkesbury Abbey, St Martin’s in the Bullring (Birmingham Parish Church), St Alphege Solihull (Solihull Parish Church), St Alban’s Church (Highgate), St Augustine’s Church (Edgbaston) and Bournville Friends Meeting House.

From 1994-2001 Darren was a tutor of Organ and Piano at the Birmingham Conservatoire Junior School. He now runs his own private teaching practice (Organ, Music Theory and Piano). He is a member of the Birmingham Organists’ Association and has also served on the Association council. In 1992, the Association awarded Darren the Leonard Gibbons Memorial Prize for Young Organists.

Darren is a full member of the Musician’s Union (M.U.) and is married to Barbara, a Mezzo-Soprano and primary school teacher. They have a daughter, Abigail. Outside the world of music, Darren and Barbara are members of the Campaign for Real Ale (C.A.M.R.A.).