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recording organs in Bedfordshire, and composing hymn tunes, carols, anthems and liturgical music.
Since his appointment as Cathedral and Diocesan Director of Music at
the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Middlesbrough in 2010, Timothy Harrison has made a major contribution to the musical and liturgical life of both cathedral and diocese. Under his able direction, a new Cathedral Choral Foundation has been established and continues to flourish and grow, alongside his musical outreach programme to local schools.
For ten years Cathy Lamb has served first as Assistant Organist and then
as Joint Director of Music at Lichfield Cathedral. She has keenly fostered outreach and it has now become her principal focus in her new role as Director of Music Outreach. Music Share takes her and the choristers out to work with local schools, and Young Voices draws in local children each Saturday to enjoy singing. She also continues to lead the RSCM Lichfield Area Committee.
The past 25 years has been a period
of remarkable change in South Africa which has transformed every part of that rainbow country. That includes church music. Jonathan Langenhoven has been among those shaping that change, from his work in a deprived parish whose choir toured Britain,
to his role in the music team at
St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town.
Sarah MacDonald directs the chapel music of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and the girls’ choir at Ely Cathedral. She has raised the profile of both, and championed unfamiliar repertory
and young composers in her recording projects, as well as encouraging and influencing a body of church musicians early in their careers. As a Canadian, she fosters links across the Atlantic.
Andrew Morrisson has, for over
35 years, nurtured the music of the Episcopal Cathedral of St Andrew
in Aberdeen as Organist and Director
of Music, and especially the choir of children, choral scholars and lay clerks, and contributed more widely to church music in Scotland. He has combined this with the demands of being Associate Head of the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences at Robert Gordon University.
Peter Parshall has contributed to the work of the RSCM in education, facilitation, and as a practising church musician.
As RSCM Coordinator in Ireland he built up the programme of education and training; in England he has directed RSCM Voices West, having previously served as an accompanist to RSCM Southern Cathedral Singers. Now living in Devon, Peter is an organ teacher, choir director and Artistic Director of the new South Wessex Organ Society.
John Rowntree has indefatigably championed music in the vernacular liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, and especially the cause of pipe organs with mechanical action, for almost half a century – from the most modest single manual instrument to the three-manual organ of Douai Abbey, where he has been Director of Music and Organist for several decades. The fruits of his advice are found throughout Britain, not least through his service on the Organs Advisory Committee of the Church Buildings Council of the Church of England.
Neil Shroff has been Chair of RSCM New Zealand Auckland Branch for five years and has served on the committee for over a decade. An experienced church musician, he has organized music festivals and national RSCM courses
as well as founding the Auckland Boys’ Choir. His strength lies not only in
his musical skills but in the way he energizes people, revitalizing both the RSCM in Auckland and the wider cultural music community beyond.
HONORARY MEMBERS OF
THE RSCM (HonRSCM)
Awarded for exceptional or very significant work that has contributed to the cause of church music and/or liturgy at international or national levels, or within the RSCM, but which is not primarily musical or liturgical:
Through the initiatives of small companies, and even of particular individuals, an extensive body of church music sung by British cathedral and church choirs has been shared throughout the world through recording. For the past 38 years Neil Collier has committed himself to such an endeavour through his company, Priory Records. He has built a lasting archive for posterity.
The Summer Training Courses are at the heart of the work of RSCM America, and none of the courses is larger or more successful than the King’s College Course in Pennsylvania – attracting over 200 participants. Glenn Miller has been a key figure on this course since its inception in 1990 and serves as its Music Manager. This is not to overlook his ongoing work as church musician, or as basso profundo.
Nicholson and Company have been organ builders based in Worcestershire since 1841. Their work over the past
20 years has been notably outstanding including important new organs
in Llandaff Cathedral, Portsmouth Cathedral, Southwell Minster, Christchurch Priory and their largest and most recent organ to date for Auckland Cathedral, as well as a wide range of other work of high quality. Much of that success can be attributed to the leadership of Andrew Moyes, their Managing Director since 1994.
CERTIFICATES OF
SPECIAL SERVICE
Awarded for significant administrative work as a voluntary officer or member of staff within the RSCM; or an award for a significant contribution to church music and/or liturgy at a local level:
Julian Bonia is the rock on which church music at St Cuthbert, Norham survives and thrives, in a remote and sparsely populated area of North Northumberland. As an outstanding church musician, and practical saviour of pipe organs, he has given unstinting and selfless service over many decades to this and many other parishes.
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