A GRAMMY Award winning conductor from Otley has appeared in court accused of sexual offences.

Joseph Cullen appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court charged with two counts of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour.

The 54-year-old made no plea or declaration when he appeared in private on petition.

The Crown Office confirmed his case has been submitted for further examination and he has been released on bail.

Mr Cullen, who was born in Glasgow, is Huddersfield Choral Society's chorus master and has been the director of music at Leeds Cathedral.

Mr Cullen has also won two Grammy Awards for his work as director of the London Symphony Chorus, but has now been suspended by Huddersfield Choral Society.

He won a scholarship at the age of nine to study violin and piano at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and completed one year full-time there before reading music at Cambridge University, where he was organ scholar of Trinity College.

In Otley he is known as a cycling campaigner.