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St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney 1866, rebuilt by Hill, Norman & Beard and Orgues Letourneau; Trinity Methodist Church in Burton-upon-Trent, 1869. After the closing of the church in 2011, the organ was transferred to the Catholic St. Afra church in Berlin, and inaugurated on 22 November 2015. It is regarded as the most significant English organ in ...
Robert Quinney was born in Nottingham [4] and was a chorister at Dundee Cathedral and then at All Saints Church, Ecclesall, where he learned to play the organ. [4] [5] [6]He attended Silverdale School [7] and then received a sixth-form full academic scholarship to Eton College, which Eton offers to pupils from state schools. [4]
Robert Costin was a chorister at Peterborough Cathedral and a music scholar at Oundle School. He studied organ and harpsichord at the Royal Academy of Music from 1989 to 1990, and was organ scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, from 1990 to 1993. In 1990, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists.
In 2005 a collection of his major organ works was published, and a scholarship and trust in his name was founded by Major and Mrs Vernon Yon, an American who heard the Peterborough Cathedral Choir whilst posted to the UK.
Steven Grahl is the Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge. [1] [2] He is also conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford.He is a past president of the Incorporated Association of Organists, [3] and previously conducted both the Peterborough Choral Society and the Stamford Chamber Orchestra. [4]
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1954–1972 Gerald H. Knight [9] (formerly Assistant Organist of Truro Cathedral) 1972–1989 Lionel Dakers [10] (formerly Organist of Exeter and Ripon Cathedrals) 1989–1998 Harry Bramma [11] (formerly Assistant Organist of Worcester Cathedral and Organist of Southwark Cathedral) 1998–2007 John Harper [12] 2007–2012 Lindsay Gray [13] [14]
In 1915–16, Armstrong was assistant organist in Peterborough for a year before being elected organ scholar of Keble College, Oxford. [1] His studies were interrupted by service in France during the First World War; he enlisted with the Royal Artillery in 1916, before being commissioned towards the end of the war. [1]