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List of organists of St Albans Cathedral. The posts of organist and master of the music at St Albans Cathedral have been held by a number of well-known musicians, including Peter Hurford, Stephen Darlington and Barry Rose. Andrew Lucas is the current Master of the Music. [81]
William Fox (born 1995) is an English organist, currently Director of Music at St Albans Cathedral. [1] Fox was successively a chorister at York Minster, Junior Organ Scholar at Wells Cathedral and Organ Scholar at Hereford Cathedral. [2] While in Hereford he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) and won the Turpin and ...
The assistant master of music at the cathedral is sometimes also the master of music at St Albans School — for example, Simon Lindley and Andrew Parnell. Since 1963 the cathedral has been home to the St Albans International Organ Festival , founded by Peter Hurford, and winners of which include Dame Gillian Weir , Thomas Trotter and Naji Hakim .
Parnell has accompanied St Albans Cathedral Choir in recordings and radio and television broadcasts and has also accompanied Norwich Cathedral Girls' Choir on tour in the Netherlands, deputised as Assistant Organist at Southwell Minster and at the Cathedrals of Ely, Canterbury and Wakefield, and is conductor of Ely Choral Society, principal conductor of Cambridgeshire Choral Society and ...
Gerald Hendrie Complete Organ Music Volume 1 (comprising Le Tombeau de Marcel Dupré Sicilienne, Choral: Hommage à César Franck, Specula Petro, Sonata: In Praise of St Asaph), Tom Winpenny, organ of St Albans Cathedral, Toccata Classics 2023.
For the same period, he was Music Master at Bablake School, Coventry, and Musical Director of the Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir. He was then appointed organist and choirmaster of St Albans Cathedral in 1958, serving in this post for twenty years. [5]
Downes helped execute the rebuilding of many famous organs, including St Albans Cathedral (in 1963) [1] and Gloucester Cathedral [4] (in 1971). He was Professor of Organ in the Royal College of Music from 1954 to 1975 [ 2 ] and was regarded as the leading organ teacher of his day. [ 1 ]
Fayrfax is reported as being the organist of St Albans Abbey responsible for the music there from 1498 to 1502. [3] Fayrfax gained a Mus.B. from Cambridge in 1501, and a Mus.D. in 1504; [5] he later acquired a D.Mus. from Oxford (by incorporation) in 1511. [3] He became a member of the Fraternity of St Nicholas in 1502.