List of Worcester Cathedral organists

This is a list of organists at Worcester Cathedral, in the city of Worcester, England. Notable organists at Worcester have included Thomas Tomkins (from 1596), Hugh Blair (from 1895), Ivor Atkins (from 1897) and David Willcocks (from 1950). The present organist (from 2012) is Dr Peter Nardone.

Organists

1710–1745, the post of Master of the Choristers was separated from that of Organist, Ralph Dean (1710–23) and William Davis (1723–45) serving as Master of the Choristers.

Source for dates 1662–1897: Atkins, Ivor (1918). The early occupants of the office of organist and master of the choristers of the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessèd Virgin Mary, Worcester. London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke. p. 70–71.

Assistant Organists
  • William Done 1835–1844 (afterwards organist)
  • Alfred James Caldicott c.1860
  • Robert Taylor 1865
  • Mr. Garton 1879
  • James Henry Caseley (later organist of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon)
  • Hugh Blair Assistant Organist 1887–1889, Organist-in-Charge 1889–1895 (afterwards organist)[1]
  • Henry Holloway 1889–1893[2]
  • George Street Chignell 1893–1896[3]
  • Frank Alfred Charles Mason 1895–1899[4]
  • Edgar Thomas Cook 1904–1909
  • Alexander E. Brent Smith ?–1912
  • Edgar F.Day 1912-1962
  • Christopher Robinson 1962–1963 (later organist of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle)
  • Harry Bramma 1963–1976 (later organist of Southwark Cathedral)
  • Paul Trepte 1976–1981 (later organist of Ely Cathedral)
  • Adrian Partington 1981–1991 (later organist of Gloucester Cathedral)
  • Raymond Johnston 1991–1998 (later organist of St Mark's Cathedral, Minneapolis, US)
  • Daniel Phillips 1998–2004
  • Christopher Allsop 2004 – 2012

Assistant Organists and Assistant Directors of Music
  • Christopher Allsop 2012 - August 2018 (later Assistant Director of Music, King's School, Worcester)
  • Nicholas Freestone September 2018 -

Sub-Assistant Organists
  • Simon Bertram 2007 - 2008
  • George Castle 2008 - 2012
  • James Luxton 2012 - 2014
  • Justin Miller 2014 - 2016
  • Richard Cook 2017 -

References
  1. "Blair, Hugh (BLR884H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. Dictionary of Organs and Organists. First Edition. 1912. p.361
  3. Dictionary of Organs and Organists. First Edition. 1912. p.258
  4. Dictionary of Organs and Organists. First Edition. 1912. p.382
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