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Simon Lindley (born 10 October 1948) is an English organist, choirmaster, conductor and composer.He was Leeds City Organist from 1976 to 2017 (named City Organist Emeritus in Summer 2017) and is Organist Emeritus of Leeds Minster, having been organist and Master of the Music Leeds Minster from 1975 until his retirement in 2016.
He worked as director of the Parish Church Choir where he broadened the musical repertoire of Leeds Parish Church, introducing more unaccompanied music. He was also organist at the Leeds Triennial Festivals in the late 1940s and early to mid-1950s. He became conductor of the Halifax Choral Society in 1948, and founded the Leeds Guild of Singers ...
Leeds Minster, also known as the Minster and Parish Church of Saint Peter-at-Leeds (formerly Leeds Parish Church) is the minster church of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.It stands on the site of the oldest church in the city and is of architectural and liturgical significance.
Organists especially associated with St Peter's Singers include Dr Francis Jackson CBE Organist Emeritus of York Minster, Dr Donald Hunt OBE Director of Music at Leeds Parish Church 1957–1975 and Master of the Choristers and Organist of Worcester Cathedral 1975–1996, Carleton Etherington Organist of Tewkesbury Abbey, Jonathan Lilley ...
In Summer 2009, 2010 and 2011, Dr Lindley directed the Ripon and Leeds Area Diocesan Choirs' Festival on the occasion of the presentation of the dean's and bishops' choristers' awards within the diocese; the services in 2009, 2011 and 2012 were held at the Parish Church and that for 2010 at Ripon Cathedral.
Organist of St Mary and St Ambrose Church, Edgbaston 1948–49; Organ scholar of Keble College, Oxford 1949-53; Organist of St. Germain's Church, Edgbaston 1955–58; Music Master at King Edward VI Grammar School, Aston 1958-64; Organist of St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham 1958–64; Director of Music at Leeds Grammar School 1964–89
From 1954 to 1975 he was organist at St John's Church, Torquay. He was later awarded a doctorate from Leeds University (1975) honoris causa, and from 1958 until 1975 he was organist and choirmaster at Leeds Parish Church , whilst concurrently holding positions with the Leeds Philharmonic Society , Halifax Choral Society, Huddersfield Glee ...
Organ relocated to Lidgett Park Methodist Church, Leeds [10] Church of St Thomas, Stanningley, Pudsey Purchased 1906 by Dr James Varley-Roberts, Restored 1946, (Binns, Fitton and Haley). Leeds, West Riding (Yorkshire, West) Pudsey – Stanningley (SE2234), St. Thomas (Anglican Parish Church) [11] Farnsfield parish church of St. Michael ...