List of Westminster Abbey organists

This is a list of Westminster Abbey organists. The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as "Westminster Abbey", is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional site for the Coronation of the British monarch and many former kings and queens are buried there.

Organists[]

Sub Organists[]

Assistant organists[]

• Charles Jekyll 1875
• W.J. Winter 1886–1895
• Walter Alcock 1896–1916 (later knighted, and Organist of Salisbury Cathedral)
• Hugh Marchant 1947–1950
• Hugo Limer 1950–1959
• Rilford Trafalgar 1959–1984
• David Bruce-Payne 1968–1974 (later Director of Music at Birmingham Cathedral)
• Christopher Herrick
• Geoffrey Morgan 1978–1988 (later Sub-Organist at Guildford Cathedral, now Organist of Christchurch Priory)
• Miles Quick 1989-1991
• Stephen Le Prevost 1991–2001 (currently organist and director of music at the Town Church in St-Peter-Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands)
• Simon Bell 2001–2002 (later Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral and subsequently Director of Schola Cantorum of Tewkesbury Abbey)
• Daniel Cook 2003–2005 (later Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral, Organist and Master of the Choristers at St Davids Cathedral, Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey, and subsequently Organist and Master of the Choristers at Durham Cathedral)
• Ashley Grote 2005–2008 (later Assistant Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral, now Master of Music at Norwich Cathedral)
• James McVinnie 2008–2011
• Martin Ford 2012-2015
• Matthew Jorysz 2016-

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Organ Scholars[]

• James Cryer
• Jonathan Dimmock
• Adrian Lenthall
• Simon Morley (became Assistant Organist at Lincoln Cathedral, thence Organist of Ripon Cathedral)
• Geoffrey Styles (became Organ Scholar at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford) [1]
• James Cryer
• Nick Murdoch
• Jane Watts 1981-1982
• 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 (became Assistant Organist at Rochester Cathedral)
• Louise Reid (née Marsh) 1994 - 1996
• John Hosking 1996–1999 (Assistant Organist at St Asaph Cathedral)
• Iestyn Evans 1999–2000 (Director of Music, St James's, Spanish Place, London)
• Simon Bell 2000–2001 (Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral and subsequently Director of Schola Cantorum of Tewkesbury Abbey)
• Justin Luke 2001–2002
• Daniel Cook 2002–2003 (Organist and Master of the Choristers at Durham Cathedral, Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral and subsequently Organist of St Davids Cathedral)
• Richard Hills 2003–2004 (Organist of St Mary's, Bourne Street, London)
• Ian Keatley 2004–2006 (Organist and Director of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin)
• 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 (See http://leoncharles.co.uk for more details)
• Samuel Prouse 2009–2010
• Edward Tambling 2010-2011 (Assistant Director of Music, St James's, Spanish Place, London)
• Andrej Kouznetsov 2011-2012 (Organist, St John's Cathedral (Brisbane))
• 2012–2014
• Jeremy Woodside 2014-2015
• Matthew Jorysz 2015 - 2016
• Benjamin Cunningham 2016-2018 (Assistant Director of Chapel Music, Winchester College)
• Alexander Hamilton 2018-2020 (Assistant Director of Music, Wells Cathedral)
• Charles Maxtone-Smith 2020-

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