Name
|
Institution
|
Dates
|
Later appointments
|
Ref
|
Hugh Percy Allen
|
Christ's College, Cambridge
|
1892–1895
|
Organist of
St Asaph Cathedral,
Ely Cathedral and
New College, Oxford; professor of music at the
University of Oxford and director of the
Royal College of Music
|
[3]
|
Malcolm Archer
|
Jesus College, Cambridge
|
1972–1975
|
Organist of
Bristol Cathedral,
Wells Cathedral and
St Paul's Cathedral; director of chapel music and organist of
Winchester College
|
|
Richard Armstrong
|
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
|
1961
|
Music Director of
Welsh National Opera and
Scottish Opera
|
|
Thomas Armstrong
|
Keble College, Oxford
|
1919-1921
|
Organist of
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
|
|
Martin Baker
|
Downing College, Cambridge
|
1985–1988
|
Master of Music at
Westminster Cathedral
|
|
Sarah Baldock
|
Pembroke College, Cambridge
|
1993-1996
|
Assistant Director of Music
Winchester Cathedral, organist of
Chichester Cathedral, director of music at
Winchester College
|
|
Ayo Bankole
|
Clare College, Cambridge
|
1961–1964
|
Organist of Lagos Cathedral
|
|
Stephen Barlow
|
Trinity College, Cambridge
|
1972–1975
|
|
|
Benjamin Bayl
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1997–2000
|
|
|
Kenneth Beard
|
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
|
1949–1952
|
Organist of
Southwell Minster
|
|
John Bertalot
|
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and
Lincoln College, Oxford
|
1955–1958 (Corpus Christi) ? (Lincoln)
|
Organist of
Blackburn Cathedral
|
|
Harry Bicket
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1980–1983
|
Director of
The English Concert
|
|
Jonathan Bielby
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1963–1967
|
Organist of
Wakefield Cathedral
|
|
Hugh Blair
|
Christ's College, Cambridge
|
1883-1886
|
Organist of
Worcester Cathedral
|
|
Mark Blatchly
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1978–1981
|
Organist of
St Edmundsbury Cathedral
|
|
Geraint Bowen
|
Jesus College, Cambridge
|
1982–1985
|
Organist of
St Davids Cathedral and
Hereford Cathedral
|
|
John Dykes Bower
|
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
|
1922
|
Organist of
Truro Cathedral and
St Paul's Cathedral
|
[4]
|
Harry Bramma
|
Pembroke College, Oxford
|
1955–1960
|
Organist of
Southwark Cathedral and director of the
Royal School of Church Music
|
|
Herbert Brewer
|
Exeter College, Oxford
|
1883–1885
|
Composer, organist of
Bristol Cathedral and
Gloucester Cathedral
|
[5]
|
David Briggs
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1981–1984
|
Organist of
Truro Cathedral and
Gloucester Cathedral
|
|
Paul Brough
|
Magdalen College, Oxford
|
1983–1986
|
Organist of
Sheffield Cathedral, director of music at
All Saints, Margaret Street.
|
|
William Denis Browne
|
Clare College, Cambridge
|
1910–1912
|
Composer and music critic
|
[6]
|
John Butt
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1979–1982
|
Gardiner Professor of Music,
Glasgow University
|
|
Timothy Byram-Wigfield
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1982–1985
|
Sub-organist of
Winchester Cathedral, organist of
St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh,
St George's Chapel, Windsor. Director of Music at
Jesus College, Cambridge, and now at
All Saints, Margaret Street
|
|
Andrew Cantrill
|
College of St. Hild and St. Bede, Durham
|
1987–1991
|
Director of Music at
Saint Paul's Cathedral, Wellington and organist and master of choristers at
Croydon Minster
|
|
Nicholas Cleobury
|
Worcester College, Oxford
|
1968–1971
|
Assistant Organist of
Chichester Cathedral and
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
|
|
Stephen Cleobury
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1967–1971
|
Master of Music at
Westminster Cathedral, director of music at
King's College, Cambridge
|
|
Norman Cocker
|
Merton College, Oxford
|
1907–1909
|
Organist of
Manchester Cathedral
|
|
E. T. Cook
|
The Queen's College, Oxford
|
|
Organist of
Southwark Cathedral
|
|
John Cook
|
Christ's College, Cambridge
|
|
Organist of
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, Ontario)
|
|
Deryck Cooke
|
Selwyn College, Cambridge
|
1938–40, 1946–1947
|
Broadcaster and musicologist
|
|
David Cooper
|
Lincoln College, Oxford
|
1967–1970
|
Organist of
Norwich Cathedral
|
|
Joseph Cooper
|
Keble College, Oxford
|
1931–1934
|
|
[7]
|
Robert Costin
|
Pembroke College, Cambridge
|
1990–1993
|
Assistant director of music at
Blackburn Cathedral, director of music at
Rugby School Thailand
|
|
Stephen Darlington
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1971–1974
|
Organist of
St Albans Cathedral and
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
|
|
Andrew Davis
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1963–1966
|
Chief Conductor of the
BBC Symphony Orchestra
|
|
Christopher Dearnley
|
Worcester College, Oxford
|
1948–1952
|
Organist of
Salisbury Cathedral and
St Paul's Cathedral
|
|
Ralph Downes
|
Keble College, Oxford
|
1925–1928
|
Professor of organ at the
Royal College of Music, organist of the
London Oratory and designer and curator of the organ of the
Royal Festival Hall
|
[8]
|
Clive Driskill-Smith
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1996–1999
|
Sub-Organist of
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
|
|
Kingsley Charles Dunham
|
Hatfield College, Durham
|
|
|
|
Richard Egarr
|
Clare College, Cambridge
|
1982–1985
|
Music Director of
Academy of Ancient Music
|
|
Richard Farnes
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1983–1986
|
Music Director of
Opera North
|
|
Stephen Farr
|
Clare College, Cambridge
|
1984
|
Sub-organist
Christ Church, Oxford, Sub-organist
Winchester Cathedral, organist of
Guildford Cathedral
|
|
Iain Farrington
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1996–1999
|
|
|
Thomas Fielden
|
Jesus College, Oxford
|
1905
|
|
|
Jeremy Filsell
|
Keble College, Oxford and
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
|
1982–1985
|
Organist of the
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, artist-in-residence at
Washington National Cathedral
|
|
Roger Fisher
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1959–1962
|
Organist of
Chester Cathedral
|
|
William Glock
|
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
|
1926
|
BBC Controller of Music
|
|
David Goode
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1991–1994
|
Organist of
Eton College
|
|
Steven Grahl
|
Magdalen College, Oxford
|
1998-2001
|
Organist & Director of Music at
St Marylebone Parish Church, assistant organist of
New College, Oxford
|
|
Christopher Gray
|
Pembroke College, Cambridge
|
|
Organist and Master of the Choristers,
Truro Cathedral (2008−2022); Director of Music,
St John's College, Cambridge (2023−)
|
|
Francis Grier
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1973–1976
|
Organist of
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
|
|
Douglas Guest
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1935–1939
|
Organist of
Westminster Abbey
|
|
George Guest
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1947–1951
|
Director of Music of
St John's College, Cambridge
|
|
Paul Hale
|
New College, Oxford
|
1971–1974
|
Rector Chori of
Southwell Minster
|
|
Charles Harrison
|
Jesus College, Cambridge
|
1992–1995
|
Organist and Master of the Choristers at
Chichester Cathedral
|
|
Edward Heath
|
Balliol College, Oxford
|
1935–1939
|
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
|
|
Gerald Hendrie
|
Selwyn College, Cambridge
|
1954-1957
|
Founding Professor of Music at the
Open University
|
|
Christopher Herrick
|
Exeter College, Oxford
|
1959–1962
|
Sub-Organist of
Westminster Abbey
|
|
Richard Hickox
|
Queens' College, Cambridge
|
1967–1970
|
Principal Conductor of the
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
|
|
Edward Higginbottom
|
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
|
1966–1970
|
Director of Music at
New College, Oxford
|
|
David Hill
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1976–1979
|
Master of Music of
Westminster Cathedral and at
Winchester Cathedral, director of music at
St John's College, Cambridge, director of the
BBC Singers
|
|
Martin How
|
Clare College, Cambridge
|
1949-1952
|
|
|
Peter Hurford
|
Jesus College, Cambridge
|
1949–1953
|
Organist of
St Albans Cathedral
|
|
Marcus Huxley
|
Worcester College, Oxford
|
1972-1974
|
Organist of
St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham
|
|
Daniel Hyde
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
2000–2003
|
Organist and Director of Music at
Saint Thomas Church, New York (2016−2019); Director of Music at
King's College, Cambridge (2019−present)
|
|
Carl Jackson
|
Downing College, Cambridge
|
1978–1981
|
Director of Music of the
Chapel Royal,
Hampton Court Palace
|
|
Rupert Jeffcoat
|
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
|
1989-1992
|
Organist of
Coventry Cathedral, organist and director of music at
St John's Cathedral, Brisbane
|
|
Raymond Johnston
|
Peterhouse, Cambridge
|
1981-1984
|
Director of Music at
St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis
|
|
Edward Elwyn Jones
|
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
|
|
Organist of
Harvard University
|
|
Max Kenworthy
|
Brasenose College, Oxford
|
1996–1998
|
Assistant Organist of
Saint Paul's Cathedral, Wellington
|
|
John Keys
|
New College, Oxford
|
1978-1981
|
Organist of
St. Mary's Church, Nottingham
|
|
Charles Herbert Kitson
|
Selwyn College, Cambridge
|
1893
|
Organist of
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
|
|
James Lancelot
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1971–1974
|
Sub-organist of
Winchester Cathedral, organist of
Durham Cathedral
|
[9]
|
Anna Lapwood
|
Magdalen College, Oxford
|
|
Director of Music at
Pembroke College, Cambridge and Associate Artist at
Royal Albert Hall
|
[10]
|
Stephen Layton
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1985–1988
|
Director of Music,
Trinity College, Cambridge
|
|
Henry Ley
|
Keble College, Oxford
|
1906–1909
|
Organist of
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
|
|
Richard Lloyd
|
Jesus College, Cambridge
|
1952–1955
|
Organist of
Hereford Cathedral and
Durham Cathedral
|
|
Simon Lole
|
King's College London
|
|
Director of Music at
Sheffield Cathedral and
Salisbury Cathedral
|
|
Adrian Lucas
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1980–1983
|
Organist of
Portsmouth Cathedral and
Worcester Cathedral
|
|
Andrew Lumsden
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1981–1984
|
Organist of
Lichfield Cathedral and
Winchester Cathedral
|
|
David Lumsden
|
Selwyn College and
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1948–1951 (Selwyn) 1951–1953 (St John's)
|
Organist of
New College, Oxford and principal of the
Royal Academy of Music
|
|
Sarah MacDonald
|
Robinson College, Cambridge
|
1992–1995
|
Director of Music at
Selwyn College, Cambridge, and of
Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir
|
|
Richard Marlow
|
Selwyn College, Cambridge
|
1958–1962
|
Organist of
Trinity College, Cambridge
|
|
Alexander Mason
|
Worcester College, Oxford
|
1992-1995
|
Organist of
St Davids Cathedral
|
|
William Neil McKie
|
Worcester College, Oxford
|
1921
|
Organist of
Westminster Abbey
|
|
Hugh John McLean
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1951–1955
|
Dean,
Faculty of Music,
University of Western Ontario
|
[11]
|
Andrew Millington
|
Downing College, Cambridge
|
1971–1974
|
Organist of
Guildford Cathedral and
Exeter Cathedral
|
|
Dudley Moore
|
Magdalen College, Oxford
|
1955–1958
|
Comedian
|
|
Herbert Murrill
|
Worcester College, Oxford
|
1928–1931
|
BBC Controller of Music
|
|
Martin Neary
|
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
|
1958–1963
|
Organist of
Winchester Cathedral and
Westminster Abbey
|
|
Andrew Nethsingha
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1987–1990
|
Organist of
Truro Cathedral and
Gloucester Cathedral, director of music at
St John's College, Cambridge
|
|
Michael Nicholas
|
Jesus College, Oxford
|
1957–1960
|
Organist of
Norwich Cathedral
|
|
James O'Donnell
|
Jesus College, Cambridge
|
1979–1982
|
Master of Music of
Westminster Cathedral, organist of
Westminster Abbey
|
|
Nicholas O'Neill
|
Magdalen College, Oxford
|
1989–1992
|
Composer, former organist of
St George's Cathedral, Southwark, composer in residence for the Parliament Choir.
|
|
Boris Ord
|
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
|
1920
|
Organist of
King's College, Cambridge
|
|
Robin Orr
|
Pembroke College, Cambridge
|
1929–1932
|
Organist of
St John's College, Cambridge
|
|
Harrison Oxley
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1951–1954
|
Organist of
St Edmundsbury Cathedral
|
[12]
|
Andrew Parnell
|
Christ's College, Cambridge
|
1972–1975
|
Assistant Organist of
St Albans Cathedral
|
|
Adrian Partington
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1978–1981
|
Director of Music,
Gloucester Cathedral
|
|
Ronald Edward Perrin
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1949–1954
|
Organist of
Ripon Cathedral
|
|
Richard Popplewell
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1955–1956
|
Organist of the
Chapel Royal
|
|
Denys Pouncey
|
Queens' College, Cambridge
|
1926-1928
|
Organist of
Wells Cathedral
|
|
Simon Preston
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1958–1961
|
Organist of
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and
Westminster Abbey
|
|
Jonathan Rees-Williams
|
New College, Oxford
|
1969–1972
|
Organist of
Lichfield Cathedral and
St George's Chapel, Windsor
|
|
Christopher Robinson
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1955-1958
|
Organist of
Worcester Cathedral and
St George's Chapel, Windsor, director of music of
St John's College, Cambridge
|
|
Bernard Rose
|
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
|
1935–1939
|
Informator Choristarum of
Magdalen College, Oxford
|
|
Wallace Michael Ross
|
Balliol College, Oxford
|
1939
|
Organist of
Derby Cathedral
|
|
Brian Runnett
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1960–1963
|
Organist of
Norwich Cathedral
|
|
John Sanders
|
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
|
1952–1956
|
Organist of
Gloucester Cathedral
|
|
John Scott
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1974–1978
|
Organist of
St Paul's Cathedral, director of music at
St Thomas Church, New York
|
|
Richard Seal
|
Christ's College, Cambridge
|
|
Organist of
Salisbury Cathedral
|
|
Geoffrey Shaw
|
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
|
1898–1901
|
|
|
Edward Shearmur
|
Pembroke College, Cambridge
|
1984–1987
|
|
|
David Stancliffe
|
Trinity College, Oxford and
Lincoln College, Oxford
|
1961
|
Anglican
Bishop of Salisbury
|
[13]
|
Charles Villiers Stanford
|
Queens' College, Cambridge
|
1870
|
Organist and director of music, Trinity College, Cambridge; professor of music,
University of Cambridge
|
|
Charles Hylton Stewart
|
Peterhouse, Cambridge
|
1903
|
Organist of
Rochester Cathedral
|
|
Frederick Stocken
|
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
|
1986-1989
|
|
|
Richard Tanner
|
Exeter College, Oxford
|
1989–1992
|
Organist of
Blackburn Cathedral
|
[14]
|
Alan Thurlow
|
University of Sheffield
|
|
Organist of
Chichester Cathedral
|
|
Paul Trepte
|
New College, Oxford
|
1972–1975
|
Organist of
St Edmundsbury Cathedral and
Ely Cathedral
|
|
Thomas Trotter
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1976–1979
|
Birmingham City Organist
|
|
Jonathan Vaughn
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
2000–2003
|
Assistant organist of
Wells Cathedral; associate director of music at
Christ Church, Greenwich, USA
|
|
James Vivian
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1993–1997
|
Director of Music at
St George's Chapel, Windsor
|
|
Frederick William Wadely
|
Selwyn College, Cambridge
|
1900–1903
|
Organist of
Carlisle Cathedral
|
|
Colin Walsh
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1974–1978
|
Organist of
St Albans Cathedral and
Lincoln Cathedral
|
|
Mark Wardell
|
Royal Holloway College, London
|
|
Assistant Organist at
Chichester Cathedral
|
|
Sydney Watson
|
Keble College, Oxford
|
1922–1925
|
Organist of
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
|
|
Geoffrey Webber
|
New College, Oxford
|
1977–1980
|
Director of Music of
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
|
|
Peter White
|
St John's College, Cambridge
|
1956–1960
|
Organist of
Leicester Cathedral
|
|
William Whitehead
|
University College, Oxford
|
1990–1993
|
Sub-Organist of
Rochester Cathedral
|
|
Allan Wicks
|
Christ Church, Oxford
|
1941–1946
|
Organist of
Canterbury Cathedral
|
|
David Willcocks
|
King's College, Cambridge
|
1939–1940, 1945–1947
|
Organist of
Salisbury Cathedral,
Worcester Cathedral and
King's College, Cambridge, director of the
Royal College of Music
|
[15]
|
Mark Williams
|
Trinity College, Cambridge
|
1997-2000
|
Assistant Organist of
St Paul's Cathedral, Director of Music,
Jesus College, Cambridge, Informator Choristarum,
Magdalen College, Oxford
|
|
John Scott Whiteley
|
Royal Holloway College, London
|
1968-1971
|
Organist Emeritus,
York Minster
|
|
Charles Wood
|
Selwyn College and
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
|
1888–1889 (Selwyn) 1889–1894 (Gonville and Caius)
|
Professor of Music,
University of Cambridge
|
|
Peter Wright
|
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
|
1973–1976
|
Organist of
Southwark Cathedral
|
|