List of musicians at Welsh cathedrals

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St Davids Cathedral organ

Bangor Cathedral

The 14th century poet Dafydd ap Gwilym wrote of the organ and choir of Bangor Cathedral.

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Organists

  • 1644 Thomas Bolton
  • 1689 (A Vicar Choral) ?
  • 1691 Thomas Roberts
  • 1705  ? Priest
  • 1708  ? Smith
  • 1710  ? Ferrer
  • 1713 John Rathbone
  • 1721 Thomas Rathbone
  • 1750 Thomas Lloyd
  • 1778 Richard Jarred
  • 1782 William Shrubsole
  • 1784 Edmund Olive
  • 1793 Joseph Pring
  • 1842 James Sharpe Pring
  • 1868 Robert Roberts
  • 1872 Roland Rogers
  • 1892 T. Westlake Morgan
  • 1906 Roland Rogers (reappointed)
  • 1928 Leslie Douglas Paul
  • 1970 John Hywel
  • 1972 Andrew John Goodwin
  • 2009 Graham Eccles
  • 2014 Martin Brown

Director of Music

  • 2014 Paul Booth
  • 2021 Joe Cooper

Brecon Cathedral

Brecon Cathedral is the cathedral of the Church in Wales Diocese of Swansea and Brecon.

Organists and Directors of Music

Assistant Organists

  • 1968 Hazel Davies
  • 2007 Meirion Wynn Jones
  • 2012 Paul Hayward
  • 2014 Stephen Power
  • 2017 Tom Coxhead
  • 2018 Jonathan Pilgrim

Sub-Organists

Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral

Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff.

Directors of Music and Organists

  • 1974 Hellier Johns
  • 1980 David Neville
  • 2005 Dominic Neville

[1]

  • 2017 Jeffrey Howard

Assistant Organists

  • 1974 Nigel Davies
  • 1976 Keith Lowe
  • 1988-1991 Theodore Saunders
  • 1991-1997 Steven Maxson and
  • 1991-1993 William Reynolds
  • 1997-2001 Jeremy Rouse

Master of the Choristers

  • James Neville [1]

Organ Scholar

  • 2009-2012 James Wall
  • 2016 - 2017 Joseph Cavalli-Price

Llandaff Cathedral

Llandaff Cathedral has only dedicated choir school in the Church in Wales.

Organists and Masters of the Choristers

Assistant Organists

Assistant Director of Music

Newport Cathedral

Newport Cathedral is the cathedral of the Church in Wales Diocese of Monmouth.

Organists

  • 1964−1979 Donald Bate
  • 1979 Christopher Barton
  • 2015 Dr. Emma Gibbins

Assistant organists

St Asaph Cathedral

In 2018 St Asaph Cathedral made its professional music staff redundant.

Organists

  • 1620 John Day
  • 1630 Abednego D. Perkins
  • 1631 John Wilson
  • 1669 Thomas Ottey
  • 1680 William Key
  • 1686 Thomas Hughes
  • 1694 Alexander Gerard
  • 1738 John Gerard
  • 1782 John Jones
  • 1785 Edward Bailey
  • 1791 Charles Spence
  • 1794 Henry Hayden
  • 1834 Robert Augustus Atkins
  • 1889 Llewellyn Lloyd
  • 1897 Hugh Percy Allen
  • 1898 Archibald Wayet Wilson
  • 1901 Cyril Bradley Rootham
  • 1902 William Edward Belcher
  • 1917 Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks
  • 1956 Robert Duke Dickinson
  • 1962 James Roland Middleton
  • 1970 Graham John Elliott
  • 1981 John Theodore Belcher
  • 1985 Hugh Davies
  • 1998 Graham Eccles
  • 2004 - 2018 Alan McGuinness
  • 2018 Christopher Enston

and Director of Music 2019 Paul Booth

Assistant organists

Assistant Director of Music

St Davids Cathedral

Organists at St Davids Cathedral include the father of the composer Thomas Tomkins.

Organist and Master of the Choristers

  • 1490 Priest Vicars
  • 1509 John Norman
  • 1563 Thomas Elliot
  • c.1570–c.1586 Thomas Tomkins (father of the composer Thomas Tomkins)
  • 1713 R. Mordant
  • 1714 Henry Mordant
  • 1719 Richard Tomkins
  • 1719 Williarn Bishop
  • 1720 Henry Williams
  • 1725 Matthew Maddox
  • 1734 Matthew Philpott
  • 1793 Arthur Richardson
  • 1827 John Barrett
  • 1851 William Peregrine Propert
  • 1883 Frederick Garton
  • 1894 D. John Codner
  • 1896 Herbert C. Morris
  • 1922 Joseph Soar
  • 1953 Peter Boorman
  • 1977 Nicholas Jackson
  • 1984 Malcolm Watts
  • 1990 Kerry Beaumont (later Organist of Ripon Cathedral and Coventry Cathedral)
  • 1995 Geraint Bowen (currently Director of Music at Hereford Cathedral)
  • 2001 Timothy Noon (later Organist of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral; currently Organist of Exeter Cathedral)
  • 2007 Alexander Mason (currently Director of Music at Lancing College)
  • 2011 Daniel Cook (later Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey; currently Organist of Durham Cathedral)
  • 2013 Oliver Waterer (currently Organist of Selby Abbey)

Director of Music

  • 2022 Simon Pearce

Assistant Organist

Assistant Director of Music

Organ Scholars

Swansea Cathedral

St Joseph's Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Menevia

Diocesan Director of Music

Wrexham Cathedral

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wrexham.

Choir director

See also

Notes

  1. Brooksbank was the organiser of the first Cardiff Music Festival. [5]

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