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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.
Halifax Parish Church, now Halifax Minster. The mid-nineteenth century was a period of great change in the Anglican Church. Already we have seen how Varley Roberts had begun to transform the music at Halifax Parish Church by having the organ modernised and developing the choir. But the transformation was not yet complete.
Paul Dewhurst, previously Organist of Pontefract Parish Church , succeeded as Director of Music at Leeds Minster from November 2016. Dewhurst is also conductor of Hull Choral Union and Wakefield Festival Chorus and moved to Bridlington Priory as Director of Music in January 2020.
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 ...
Bramma was educated at Bradford Grammar School and his early musical education included organ lessons under Melville Cook, organist of Leeds Parish Church. He went on to read theology and music at Oxford University from 1955 to 1960, studying as organ scholar of Pembroke College. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1958 and Master of Arts in 1960.
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 ...
His playing was a feature of the first LP recordings made by Leeds Parish Church Choir under Donald Hunt. He is also on the Huddersfield Choral Society and Black Dyke Band recording Christmas Fantasy on the Chandos label, playing the Huddersfield Town Hall organ.
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 ...