Priory Records is a record company in the UK founded in 1980, and devoted mostly to church music and organ music. Important projects have included the complete Psalms sung by cathedral choirs to Anglican chant, all of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis settings by Herbert Howells, the "British Church Composer Series", the "Choral and Music from English Cathedrals", the "Music for Evensong" and, more recently, all the hymns in the complete New English Hymnal Series. There are also three discs of the Communion Service settings of Stanford and four further discs featuring settings of the Te Deum and Jubilate.
Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, is an English soprano.
Petr Eben was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music, and an organist and choirmaster.
The Doctor of Music degree is a doctorate awarded on the basis of a substantial portfolio of compositions, musical performances, and/or scholarly publications on music.
The Royal College of Organists (RCO) is a charity and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, with members worldwide. Its role is to promote and advance organ playing and choral music, and it offers music education, training and development, and professional support for organists and choral directors.
Dame Judith Weir is a British composer serving as Master of the King's Music. Appointed in 2014 by Queen Elizabeth II, Weir is the first woman to hold this office.
Peter John Hurford OBE was a British organist and composer.
Ralph William Downes CBE KSG was an English organist, organ designer, teacher and music director and was Professor of Organ in the Royal College of Music.
Jennifer Lucy Bate, was a British concert organist. She is known for recording the complete organ works by Olivier Messiaen, guided by the composer, but also recorded, among others, English organ music, and the complete organ works of César Franck, Felix Mendelssohn and Peter Dickinson.
Gerard Thomas Gillen is one of the most prominent Irish organists and a Professor Emeritus in Music at Maynooth University. As an organist, he has performed globally and recorded several CDs. Gillen's research interests lie in the areas of Catholic church music, organ building, and performance practice.
James Anthony O'Donnell is a British organist, choral conductor and academic teacher who has been a professor of organ at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in Connecticut, United States, since 2023.
Jane Marian Manning OBE was an English concert and opera soprano, writer on music, and visiting professor at the Royal College of Music. A specialist in contemporary classical music, she was described by one critic as "the irrepressible, incomparable, unstoppable Ms. Manning – life and soul of British contemporary music".
Gordon Brodie Stewart is a British organist, conductor, and teacher.
Patrick Russill is an English choral conductor and Professor of Organ in the Royal College of Music.
Joseph Nolan is an English-born Australian organist and conductor.
Mark Rowan-Hull is a British synaesthete performance and visual artist. He is known for creating original works of art accompanied by musicians in front of a live audience.
Anne Marsden Thomas is an English organist and pedagogue. She is Director of Music at St Giles-without-Cripplegate in the City of London.
Sidney Thomas Mayow Newman, C.B.E., M.A.., (Oxon), Hon D.Mus. (Dunelm) Hon R.A.M., F.R.C.O., F.C.T.L.. FRSE.
David Titterington is a British organist, educator and artistic director.
