List of musicians at Welsh cathedrals Last updated March 15, 2025
St Davids Cathedral organ This is a list of musicians at Welsh cathedrals .
Bangor Cathedral The 14th century poet Dafydd ap Gwilym wrote of the organ and choir of Bangor Cathedral .
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 (currently Director of Music at Newport Cathedral ) 2018 Jonathan Pilgrim
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]
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
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 1861 John Bernard Wilkes 1866 Francis Edward Gladstone 1870 Theodore Edward Aylward 1876 Charles Lee Williams 1882 Hugh Brooksbank [ a] 1894 George Galloway Beale [ 6] 1937 William Henry Gabb 1946 Albert Vernon Butcher 1949 Thomas Hallford 1950 Eric Arthur Coningsby 1952 Charles Kenneth Turner 1957 Eric Howard Fletcher 1958 Robert Henry Joyce 1974 Michael John Smith 2000 Richard Moorhouse 2014 Jonathan Bielby (interim) [ 7] 2016 Stephen Moore [ 8] Assistant Director of Music Newport Cathedral Newport Cathedral is the cathedral of the Church in Wales Diocese of Monmouth .
1934-1941 C J Ball 1941-1963 Charles St Ervan Johns 1964−1979 Donald Bate 1979 Christopher Barton 2015 Dr. Emma Gibbins 2024 Tom Coxhead 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 2019 Paul Booth - Director of Music Assistant organists 1875–1889 Llewelyn Lloyd 1897–1901 F. Walton Evans 1978–1982 Patrick Larley Assistant Director of Music 2004–2018 John Hosking; later Director of Music at Holy Trinity, Southport (2018 - 2022) then Organist in Residence at Blackburn Cathedral. 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 ) Assistant Organist 1991 Michael Slaney 1998 Simon Pearce Assistant Director of Music Notes ↑ Brooksbank was the organiser of the first Cardiff Music Festival. This page is based on this
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