Julian Clayton has gained an enviable reputation as one of the foremost trainers of young musicians and as such has worked with many student and conservatoire orchestras and opera departments in the UK and overseas including conducting the massed strings of the London International String Quartet Symposium where he also acted as assistant to Yehudi Menuhin.

In addition to broadcasting on radio and television, Julian's commercial recordings include five discs with the orchestra of Chetham's School of Music, which all met with wide critical acclaim. His recording of Elgar's First Symphony was reviewed by Michael Kennedy as "phenomenal" and a recording of music by Charles Camilleri with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has received wide critical acclaim and extensive broadcasts by radio and internet stations throughout the world. Julian Clayton has enjoyed highly successful debuts with the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union, the Limburgs Symphony Orchestra, Maastricht, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, the Classics Concert Orchestra,   the  Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra, the Aberdeen Sinfonietta, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with whom he has appeared regularly both in the concert hall and the recording studio.