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Francesca Massey (born 1982) is the former Organist and Director of Music at Rochester Cathedral, a position she held from September 2019 [1] to August 2022, when she was succeeded by Adrian Bawtree. [2] Previously she was Sub-Organist at Durham Cathedral from 2011.
In April 2014, Bawtree was appointed Assistant Sub-Organist of Rochester Cathedral, with responsibility for playing services at weekends and major festivals. [3] In September 2015, he was appointed Second Assistant Organist at Canterbury Cathedral. In 2022, he was appointed Director of Music and Organist at Rochester Cathedral. [4]
He was previously Organist and Director of Music at Rochester Cathedral. Sayer began his musical career as a chorister in Portsmouth and then studied at the Royal College of Music under Nicholas Danby. Between 1980 and 1984 he was an organ student at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and was appointed organist of Woodford Parish Church in 1981. In ...
Rochester Cathedral, main west front. Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England.The cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Rochester and seat (cathedra) of the Bishop of Rochester, the second oldest bishopric in England after that of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
He sang for several years as chorister boy in Westminster Abbey, James Turle being the organist and master of the choristers. After leaving the abbey choir Hopkins devoted himself to the study of music, and particularly of the organ, with such success that in 1841, aged 22, he was chosen to succeed Ralph Banks as organist of Rochester Cathedral ...
Dakers was born on 24 February 1924 in Rochester, Kent. [2] He studied organ under Harold Aubie Bennett at Rochester Cathedral and Edward Bairstow at York Minster. [3] He graduated Mus.Bac. at Durham University in 1951.
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From 1921 to 1930, Whitlock was assistant organist at Rochester Cathedral in Kent. He served as Director of Music at St Stephen's Church , Bournemouth for the next five years, combining this from 1932 with the role of that town's borough organist, in which capacity he regularly played at the local Pavilion Theatre.