Organists

Benedict James Wilson - Assistant Director of Music

Benedict is the Assistant Director of Music at All Saints', where he enjoys playing the organ for Sunday services, assisting with the training of the choristers and directing the full choir.

Benedict took up the Senior Organ Scholarship to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in September 2007, and graduated in June 2010. He has recently completed his Master's degree, also at Cambridge, in Choral Studies. Prior to this appointment, Benedict was Organ Scholar at Bourne Abbey, as well as accompanist and conductor of a number of ensembles in and around Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. He conducted Rutter's Gloria in December 2007 and Mozart's Requiem in July 2008, both in Bourne Abbey, featuring musicians from Cambridge, Bourne and London.

Benedict was a member of the Royal College of Music Junior Department for eight years, piano and organ being his principal instruments, winning, in 2006, the Baroque Music Prize and the Hedy Robinson Award for gaining one of the highest marks nationally for ABRSM Grade 8 Theory. He was fortunate to have studied piano with James Lisney, Aaron Shorr and John Barstow, and organ with David Sutton-Anderson. He is currently studying organ with Anne Page.

Benedict acts frequently as accompanist: ABRSM and Tripos examinations; recital work in Cambridge; and competitions, such as the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize Competition, representing Cambridge.

Benedict has recently taken up the post of College Organist at Haileybury College in Hertfordshire, as well as becoming ADoM here. In December 2011, he is planning to direct performances of Handel's Messiah in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire.

Brian Bromley - Organist Emeritus
Brian at the console

Brian Bromley has been associated with All Saints' for over 60 years, originally joining the choir as a probationer at the age of 7. He is a busy teacher of Piano, Voice, Organ, Maths and English as well as a popular recitalist.

He trained with W.J. Comley, who served the church as organist for 50 years, and then with Harry Gabb (St Paul's Cathedral) and Martindale Sidwell (Trinity College). Having gained his Associateship of the Royal College of Organists, Brian succeeded Comley as Organist of All Saints' in 1966.

By then he had served as organist of several churches, including St Gabriel's Cricklewood, where he played the post-war neo-classical Walker organ. He was fortunate to also gain many insights into baroque performance practice from Joseph Henriksen. These influences came to fruition in an imaginative and sympathetic restoration and enhancement of the organ of All Saints in 1971.

As Director of Music, Brian strove to achieve a balance between the authentic performance of early music, much of which he introduced to the choir, and the enjoyment of music. He resigned in 1975, feeling that after ten years further improvement would only come from an injection of fresh ideas. He served a further term from 1978-1981. He has remained an active member of the choir and frequently gives recitals here and elsewhere.

Brian stepped down from singing and playing regularly in December 2009 and was awarded the title Organist Emeritus to mark his 60 years of service to All Saints. He continues to play for us from time to time.

TBA - Organ Scholar

We are also planning to offer an Organ Scholarship to a suitable candidate (probably in Year 11 or 12). Full details will be posted here in the near future. If you would like to discuss this please contact Martin Penny on 01462 677865.

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