Andrew Moodie

Regional Manager

Andrew was Director of Music at a Northampton church for 30 years. Formerly he was co-ordinator for the south of England, has also served with the RSCM Peterborough and Northampton Area, and for many years played the organ for the Southern Cathedral Singers. He also was an examiner for the RSCM until recently.

Andrew graduated in Music from UEA and then became assistant organist at Jesus College, Cambridge before entering the teaching profession. He took early retirement to concentrate on his passion for church music. He has tutored on and directed events for the RSCM, notably local three-day courses and examination preparation training sessions. Andrew was awarded the HonRSCM in 2016.

Marie Price

Area Team Leader

Marie has been running church choirs for over 35 years, as a choral scholar at Exeter University, where she took her degree in Music and teaching qualification, then as assistant choirmaster at Hendon St Mary (London Diocese) for 7 years and as director of Dunstable Priory Girls’ Choir for 13 years, for ten years directing two choirs at St Albans Cathedral and now as Director of Music at St Nicholas Church, Harpenden. . Marie has led courses and singing days for the RSCM and others in various parts of the country and is a certified Sing Up trainer for teachers

Nicholas Hopton

Area Secretary

Nicholas lives and worships in Harlington. He is Head of English at Bedford School and a choral composer with numerous works published by United Music Publishing. Over the years, Nicholas has played the organ for church services and led amateur choirs in Fife, Lancashire, Suffolk and Gloucestershire. He currently conducts The Quintet Choir, a friendly group of singers drawn from several local congregations.

Laurence Notley

Area Treasurer

Laurence was Director of Music at Dunstable Priory, where he maintained a flourishing choir of boys and men; in 1995 inviting Marie Price to set up a similar choir for girls. From 1981 until 1993 he was Organist & Choirmaster at St John’s, Whetstone and during most of that time sang for Martin How in the RSCM Southern Cathedral Singers and for the Summer Cathedral Residencies. In addition to his work at the Priory, for the last four years Laurence has also been Organist at St Saviour’s, Luton.

Fr Calum Zucker

Diocesan Representative

Fr Calum is assistant curate at St Paul’s Church, Winchmore Hill, where he combines ordained ministry with a career as an orchestral and choral conductor. Calum studied music in Durham, having grown up in Edinburgh, and then begun ordination training initially at Westcott House in Cambridge, where he also completed a Master’s degree in choral conducting

Jill Knight

Safeguarding Coordinator

Jill studied music and piano at Exeter University from 1979-1984. After graduating, she taught music in a variety of primary and secondary schools in Hertfordshire and has held many Director of Music posts. Jill believes that music brings people together; it should be fun, challenging both mentally and physically, spiritually uplifting and rewarding, but, most important of all, it should be open and available to everyone. The RSCM and parish church choirs are ideally placed to reach out and enable this to happen in our communities – and in so doing help to fulfil God’s will for us as expressed in Ephesians 3:18 – I pray that you……may have the power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ’.

Rosemary Knight

Area Team Member

Rosemary studied German at UCL and taught German for a time before joining a major IT company where she trained as a systems engineer and spent the rest of her working life, mostly supporting a global financial system for General Motors. She began learning the organ in Skelmersdale and has played in various churches since 1978, She passed the CertRCO in spring 2013, and in the same year she gained an MA in historical musicology from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since July 2013 she has been organist and choir director at Holy Trinity, Leverstock Green in Hertfordshire. She is also a member of the RSCM Area Chamber Choir.

Alan Childs

Team Member

Alan is currently Director of Music at St Mary’s Parish Church, Hitchin, an examiner for ABRSM and a teacher at St Paul’s Cathedral School, London, and Bedford School. He studied organ at The Royal Academy of Music, London with Martindale Sidwell and Peter Hurford. Previous organist posts include St Mary’s, Bathwick, Bath and St Ninian’s Episcopal Cathedral, Perth, Scotland. For a decade he was an ABRSM examiner. Amongst other roles, he is now a lay clerk in the St Albans cathedral choir (job share), plays the organ for services in various churches, gives organ recitals occasionally and gives recitals of English song. Derek is also President of the East Herts Church Choirs Association.

Christopher Muhley

Area Volunteer

Christopher is a freelance Organist, Accompanist, Conductor, Teacher and Consultant who has been involved with the RSCM in this Area for over 40 years. He is St Albans Cathedral’s Parish Organist and Director of the Parish Choir, and an Assistant Organist at St Nicholas’ Church, Harpenden. He has directed our local RSCM Area Chamber Choir since its institution 11 years ago.