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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.
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
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 ...
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.
The Choir of Leeds Minster is the choir of Leeds Minster, Leeds, England, which became a Minster in September 2012. [1] The choir was founded by vicar, Richard Fawcett probably as early as 1815, and was certainly in existence by 1818 (from which year there is accounting evidence for choristers' laundry).
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 ...