Augustine studied organ at the Junior Royal Academy of Music with Anne Marsden Thomas and Frederick Stocken, piano with Patsy Toh, and continuo playing with Debbie Diamond. He received his ARCO diploma in 2020.

Following experience as an organist at his local church in Harpenden, and at St Peter’s Church in St Albans under Dr Alexander Flood and Nicholas Robinson, from 2022-2023 he was the Organ Scholar at Worcester Cathedral, accompanying, improvising and taking rehearsals under Nicholas Freestone and Samuel Hudson.

Augustine is also a percussionist, with formative years of musicianship spent playing snare drum in the Harpenden Pipe Band.