Jules Buckley

Biography

Jules Buckley is a Grammy-winning artist and renowned orchestrator, arranger, and conductor. As the middleman between orchestra and artist, he has created bespoke projects with artists including Quincy Jones, Harry Styles, Jacob Collier, Father John Misty, Jon Hopkins, Michael Kiwanuka, Anoushka Shankar, Florence + the Machine, Moses Sumney, Stevie Wonder, and Paul Weller. 

He is Chief Conductor of the Metropole Orkest and Creative Artist in Association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 2016, he won a Grammy for Sylva with Snarky Puppy. In 2025, he marked his 25th BBC Prom, collaborating with St. Vincent and The Jules Buckley Orchestra. After working with Harry Styles on the track "Coming Up Roses" from the 2026 album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, he will collaborate with Styles again in summer 2026, leading the Jules Buckley Orchestra for Styles' headline London show as part of Southbank Centre's Meltdown Festival.

In Buckley's words: "I hope to keep bringing the music I love to new spaces and to continue to push the stereotypes of what an orchestra can do in the modern day".