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Boris Ord

Boris Ord (born Bernhard Ord) (July 9, 1897 - December 30, 1961) was organist and choirmaster of King's College, Cambridge between 1929 and 1957, save during World War II when he served in the Royal Air Force; Harold Darke deputised during that period.


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Amanda Husberg

For 50 years she has been the Director of Music at St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church, now a multicultural congregation in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

Arthur Duff

In 1937 Duff joined Radio Éireann as the station's first music producer and went on to become assistant director of music in 1945.

Boris Böhmann

In 2003, he was appointed cathedral director of music and headmaster of the cathedral singing school, succeeding prelate Dr. Raimund Hug at the Freiburg Minster in southwest Germany, where he conducts the choirs at the Freiburg cathedral (Freiburg cathedral boys' choir, cathedral choir, cathedral chamber choir and cathedral Orchestra).

Daniel Moult

Daniel Moult was organist and assistant director of music at Coventry Cathedral from 1995 to 2002.

Dong-ill Shin

Shin was Associate Organist at Marsh Chapel, Boston University and Interim Director of Music at Jesuit Urban Center, Boston, which is home to the historic 1863 Hook and Hastings Organ.

Douglas Lawrence

Raymond Douglas Lawrence OAM (born 1943) is an Australian organist who is Director of Music at the Scots' Church, Melbourne and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne.

Dragi Šestić

Dragi Šestić (born 14 May 1966 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a music producer, sound engineer, director of music video clips and record label owner.

Eton Choral Courses

Other directors have included Ben Parry (Director of Junior Royal Academy, London), Mark Shepherd (Director of Music, Charterhouse) and Bob Chilcott (Principal Guest Conductor, BBC Singers).

Fanfare band

The modern day ensemble would be born in 1935 as the Band and Bugles of the French Air Force under Claude Laty, the then director of music, who created the modern day fanfare band and its standard instrumentation as the band created its own fanfare and bugle section with then drum major Maurice Bonnard.

Harold Darke

He became organist at St Michael's Cornhill in 1916, and stayed there until 1966, leaving only briefly in 1941 to deputise for Boris Ord as Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge during World War II.

Harry Bramma

Harry Wakefield Bramma FRCO born (11 November 1936) is a British organist, who was Director of Music, at All Saints, Margaret Street, 1989–2004; Director of the Royal School of Church Music 1989–1998.

Iwan Knorr

In 1874 he became a teacher and in 1878 director of music theory instruction at the Imperial Conservatory in Kharkiv, in what is now Ukraine.

Johannes Jeep

In 1613, he was appointed director of music for the court of the Count of Hohenlohe, serving until 1625.

Johnnie Stewart

Born in Tonbridge, Kent, Stewart was the son of Dr Haldane Campbell Stewart, who was also musical but in a different sphere - he was organist and choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford, the director of music at the Tonbridge School, Kent, and also notable as a cricketer on the Kent County Cricket Team.

Katherine Dienes

Dienes was appointed Director of Music St Mary's, Warwick, in 2001 where she directed and trained the choir of gentlemen and boys, the girls' choir, and Collegium, an adult concert choir based at the church.

Kerry Beaumont

Beaumont was previously director of music (1994-2002) at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, England and (1990-1994) at St David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Laurence Henry Hicks

On 1 January 1963 he was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Officer (Military) with the citation, "For service as Director of Music with the RAAF".

Lora Aborn

For many years, Aborn was the organist, director of music and composer-in-residence at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple.

Marcos Balter

He currently lives in Chicago, where he is the Director of Music Composition Studies at Columbia College Chicago.

Marcus Wibberley

He is Director of Music at Hexham Abbey and Festival Director of the annual Hexham Abbey Festival of Music and Arts.

Mark Duley

He then worked for time in England, and was organist of Christ's Hospital, before coming to Dublin in 1992 to take up the post of organist and director of music at Christ Church Cathedral.

Maurice Besly

In 1919 he became director of music and organist of Queen’s College, Oxford (1919–1926), and subsequently took over the Oxford Orchestral Society from Sir Hugh Allen.

Michael Hissey

Michael has in previous year held the position of Director of Music at St Aloysius' College, a Jesuit school for boys at Milsons Point, Sydney.

Patrick Russill

He is currently Head of Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, London (since 1997), where he is also a professor of organ (since 1999), Director of Music of the London Oratory (since 1999), Visiting Professor of Choral Conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig (since 2001) and Chief Examiner of the Royal College of Organists (since 2005).

Ralph Allwood

Ralph Allwood, MBE (born 1950) was the Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College in the UK until September 2011.

Richard Heslop

He also continued his career as director of music videos, including clips for New Order, Happy Mondays ("wrote for luck" "24 hour party people" and "Hallelujah"), Pop Will Eat Itself and The Mighty Lemon Drops(A certain ratio)(sugar cubes).

Robert Quinney

Robert Quinney (born 1976; Nottingham, England) is Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral and was until recently Sub-Organist at Westminster Abbey.

Simon Over

From 1992 to 2002 Simon was a member of the music staff of Westminster Abbey, and Director of Music at both St Margaret’s Church and the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft in the Palace of Westminster.

Steven Sivyer

He is the director of music at St. Mary of Charity, Faversham Parish Church, and runs a successful church choir.

Wakefield Cathedral

Wakefield Cathedral Choir, directed by Thomas Moore assisted by Simon Earl (assistant director of music) and Daniel Justin (organ scholar), consists of boys, girls and men who perform at the cathedral and have appeared on BBC One's Songs of Praise and BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong.

Wesley Carr

In 1998 he was at the centre of a controversy over his abrupt dismissal of the abbey's Director of Music, Martin Neary, over accounting practices for professional concerts and recordings occurring outside the abbey.