List of Westminster Abbey organists

List of Westminster Abbey organists

Organists

Sub organists

• Charles Sherwood Jekyll 1860–1875^[1]
• Frederick Bridge 1875–1882 (afterwards Organist)
• Henry Davan Wetton 1881–1896^[2]
• Walter Galpin Alcock 1896–1916
• Stanley Roper 1917–1919
• Osborne Harold Peasgood 1921–1941, 1946–1962 (acting Organist 1941–1946)
• Simon Preston 1962–1967 (subsequently Organist, Christ Church, Oxford and Organist, Westminster Abbey)
• Tim W. R. Farrell 1967–1974 (afterwards Organist, Chapel Royal)
• Stephen Cleobury 1974–1978 (subsequently Master of Music, Westminster Cathedral, now Organist, King's College, Cambridge)
• Christopher Herrick 1978–1984
• Harry Bicket 1984-1988
• Iain Simcock 1988
• Andrew Lumsden 1988–1992 (subsequently Organist, Lichfield Cathedral, now Organist, Winchester Cathedral)
• Martin Baker 1992–1998 (acting organist 1998–1999, now Master of Music, Westminster Cathedral)
• Andrew Reid (now Organist, Peterborough Cathedral)
• Robert Quinney 2004–current

Assistant organists

• Charles Jekyll 1875
• W.J. Winter 1886-1895
• Walter Alcock 1896-1916
• Hugh Marchant 1947–1950
• Hugo Limer 1950–1959
• Rilford Trafalgar 1959–1984
• David Bruce-Payne 1968-1974 (later Director of Music at Birmingham Cathedral)
• Geoffrey Morgan 1978-1988 (later Sub-Organist at Guildford Cathedral)
• Stephen Le Prevost 1988-2001
• Simon Bell 2001-2002 (later Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral)
• Daniel Cook 2003-2005 (later Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral)
• Ashley Grote 2005–2008 (later Assistant Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral)
• James McVinnie 2008-2011

Organ Scholars

• James Cryer
• Jonathan Dimmock
• Adrian Lenthall
• Simon Morley (became Assistant Organist at Lincoln Cathedral, then Organist of Ripon Cathedral)
• Geoffrey Styles (became Organ Scholar at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford) [1]
• James Cryer
• Nick Murdoch
• Richard Moorhouse 1990–1992 (Organist and Master of the Choristers at Llandaff Cathedral)
• Meirion Wynn Jones 1992–1993 (Assistant Organist at Brecon Cathedral)
• William Whitehead 1993 - 1994
• Louise Reid (née Marsh) 1994 - 1996
• John Hosking 1996–1999 (Assistant Organist at St Asaph Cathedral)
• Iestyn Evans 1999–2000
• Simon Bell 2000–2001 (Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral)
• Justin Luke 2001–2002
• Daniel Cook 2002–2003 (Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral)
• Richard Hills 2003–2004 (Assistant Organist at St Mary's, Bourne Street, London)
• Ian Keatley 2004–2006 (Director of Music at Westminster Abbey Choir School)
• Simon Jacobs 2006–2007
• Benjamin Chewter 2007–2008 (Assistant Organist at Lincoln Cathedral and subsequently Assistant Director of Music at Chester Cathedral)
• Léon Charles 2008–2009
• Samuel Rathbone 2009–2010 (Assistant Director of Music at Rochester Cathedral)
• Edward Tambling 2010-2011
• Andrej Kouznetsov 2011

References