News from the Music Department
Vacancies
The cathedral choir has the following vacancies for singers in September 2010
Counter-tenor lay clerk
Counter-tenor assistant lay clerk
Gap-year tenor choral scholar
For further details please contact the director of music, Geraint Bowen
Lunchtime organ concert series
The cathedral's 2010 series of Tuesday lunchtime organ concerts began on 4 May. Admission is free with a retiring collection and there is large-screen video projection at all concerts.
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Critical acclaim for Hereford Cathedral Choir's new CD release
Hereford Cathedral Choir's latest CD, Howells from Hereford (Regent REGCD316) has been attracting critical praise in the national and international press.
New organ scholar appointed
The cathedral is pleased to announce the appointment of Tim Parsons as its organ scholar for 2010–11. Tim is a former head chorister of Guildford Cathedral and is currently a student at Charterhouse School. In September 2009 Tim was awarded the organ scholarship at Selwyn College, Cambridge starting in 2011, where he will read for a music degree.
Geraint Bowen, director of music at the cathedral, said ‘We had a strong field of applicants for next year’s organ scholarship, and we are all delighted that Tim will be joining us in Hereford next year’.
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Congratulations
We are delighted to announce that Peter Dyke, our assistant organist, has been awarded the honour of Associate of the Royal School of Church Music (ARSCM), in recognition of his dedicated work as chairman of the Herefordshire and South Shropshire Area Committee of the RSCM since 2001. Peter was presented with his award at a ceremony in Durham Cathedral on Saturday 15 May 2010.