# List of musicians at Welsh cathedrals

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

* 1923 John Humphrey Carden
* 1956 David Gwerfyl Davies (formerly organist of The Church of St. Nicholas, Kings Norton)
* 1963 Michael Bryan Hesford (later organist of St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray)
* 1966 David Patrick Gedge
* 2007 Mark Duthie
* 2017 Stephen Power

### 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

### Sub-Organists

* 2023 Dr. August Guan (later principal organist of St Gregory's Church, Cheltenham)

## 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
* 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

### 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
* 1894 George Galloway Beale
* 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)
* 2016 Stephen Moore

### Assistant Organists

* 1894 Arthur Charles Edwards
* 1940 R. M. Powney
* 1966–1970 Graham John Elliott (afterwards organist of St Asaph Cathedral)
* 1970–1980 Anthony Burns-Cox (later organist of Romsey Abbey)
* 1980–2010 Michael Hoeg
* 2010–2012 James Norrey (afterwards Assistant Director of Music at Newcastle Cathedral)
* 2012–2013 Sachin Gunga (post dissolved December 2013)

### Assistant Director of Music

* 2021 Aaron Shilson

## Newport Cathedral

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

### Organists/Choirmasters

* 1894-1934 J A Gaccon
* 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

### Assistant organists

* 1992-1995 Peter Dyke
* 2006 Ronny Krippner (later Director of Music at Croydon Minster; currently Director of Music at Ripon Cathedral)
* 2007 Christopher Denton
* 2010 Jeremy Blasby

## 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)

### Director of Music

* 2022 Simon Pearce

### Assistant Organist

* 1991 Michael Slaney
* 1998 Simon Pearce

### Assistant Director of Music

* 2022 Laurence John

### Organ Scholars

* 2016 Aaron Shilson (currently Assistant Director of Music at Llandaff Cathedral)
* 2017 Rupert Jackson (subsequently Organ Scholar of Magdalen College, Oxford)
* 2018 Emily India Evans (subsequently Organ Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
* 2019 Joshua Roebuck (now Organist of Westwood United Methodist Church, Los Angeles)
* 2020 Michael D'Avanzo (subsequently Organ Scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge)
* 2021 Thomas Hawkes (Acting Assistant Director of Music)
* 2022 James Watson (subsequently Organ Scholar of Newcastle Cathedral)
* 2024 Felix Petheu

## Swansea Cathedral

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

### Diocesan Director of Music

* Paul Brophy

## Wrexham Cathedral

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

### Choir director

* Paul Booth