Julian Wachner

Julian James Wachner (born September 23, 1969) is an American choral conductor, composer and keyboardist. From 2011 to 2022, he served as the Director of Music and the Arts at Trinity Wall Street, conducting the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and NOVUS NY. In 2020, Wachner was appointed Professor of Music and the Arts at the General Theological Seminary in Chelsea. His employment with Trinity Wall Street was terminated in 2022 due to unspecified objectionable conduct. In August 2025, Wachner was arrested and charged with ten counts of possession of child sex abuse material and one count of cocaine possession, following an investigation that began after cryptocurrency transactions linked him to a dark web child sex abuse site. At the time of his arrest, Wachner was working as a fourth grade teacher at Invent Learning Hub, a charter school in Indianapolis. He was also the conductor for Foundation Concerto Vocale, an American baroque musical foundation. Following the charges, the Concerto Vocale Foundation terminated its relationship with Wachner. The German boys' choir Tölzer Knabenchor, with which Wachner had recently been associated, also publicly distanced itself from Wachner following his arrest and urged parents and choirboys to have no contact with him.