Composer Julian Grant's community and children's operas have included: The Queen of Sheba's Legs (1991) as part of English National Opera’s Baylis programme commission, using a professional band of six players and optional children's instrumentalists (premièred at St Martin in the Fields and revived by the Endymion Ensemble in 1994 for Blackheath Concert Halls); The Uninvited (1997) for the Greenwich Festival with a cast including a professional mezzo-soprano plus other roles for teenagers, small children and adults; Heroes Don't Dance (1998), a community opera for the Royal Opera (premiered at the Cambridge Corn Exchange) with a cast including two professional roles, a large cast of adults, teenagers and children, a professional band of six players and local community orchestra; The Prevailing Tree (1994), commissioned for the 25th anniversary of the Centre for Young Musicians and scored for piano trio, junior strings, sax group, flute choir, brass band, brass quintet, children's choir, folk singer and percussion group; and A Very Private Beach (2004), a chamber opera for English National Opera's The Knack, the training programme for adult student singers run by Mary King.

Since 2002 Julian Grant has been Music Director at St Paul's Girls' School with work including an expanded and mostly rewritten The Prevailing Tree for 200 performers of all ages and standards to celebrate the school’s centenary year and La Befana (2002) for St Paul's Girls' School.