Anian Wiedner is a London-based composer and organist originally from the Alpine countryside in southern Bavaria. His music often explores the spatial possibilities of music through physical, temporal and harmonic space. He is equally at home in writing for voices as well as orchestral and electro-acoustic music. He has collaborated extensively with dancers and choreographers from various institutions, including the London Contemporary Dance School and the Central School of Ballet.
During his studies in composition and organ at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School he has won a number of prestigious prizes and awards, namely the Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal and the RCM Large Ensemble Composition Competition (2022 for his orchestral piece Sesquialtera, 2023 for his Violin concerto Waterfall Night).
Important composition teachers were Julian Anderson, Paul Newland, Simon Holt, Alison Kay, and Jonathan Cole. He deepened his studies at the Dartington International Summer School and the Impuls Academy. He received tuition from Carola Bauckholt, Caspar Johannes Walter, Rebecca Saunders, Lisa Streich, and Gavin Bryars.
His works have been performed and recorded widely by ensembles such as EXAUDI, Plus-Minus, and the Fidelio Trio. His musical development has kindly been supported by the Gerald Finzi Trust, Help Musicians Fast Track, and the Guildhall School Trust. His music has seen performances in Austria by the Müncher Flötenduo, in Cardiff by ORA Singers, at Festival Mixtur in Barcelona by Soprano Jessie Chen and at Leeds Song by Rachel Barnard and Beth Haughan.
As an organist, Anian thrives on combining the ancient with the brand new, and the written down with the improvised. He continuously seek out collaborations with fellow composers. In spring 2026, he toured a programme of his own work, paired with a new composition by former teacher Simon Holt across the UK and southern Germany. His recording of Jonathan Cole's Templum was released by October House Records in 2023.
He is Musical Director at All Saints, Poplar and previously held the position of Director of Music at St Mark's, Wimbledon. He studied the organ at the Royal College of Music with David Graham and Andrew Dewar and has played on organs such as St Bavo in Haarlem, St Sulpice and La Trinite in Paris as well as a variety of organs across Germany. In addition to leading the choirs at All Saints, he is the chorus master of the German Bonhoefferchoir in Forrest Hill.