Tom Winpenny (Musical Director) is a freelance organist and choral director and recently completed sixteen years working as Assistant Master of the Music and Director of the Cathedral Girls Choir at St Albans Cathedral. He studied as Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he played twice for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast internationally. He was subsequently Sub-Organist at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, where he played for many great state occasions. He has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio and has been featured on American Public Media’s Pipedreams. In recent years he has performed throughout Europe, the United States and the UK at venues including St Stephen’s Cathedral (Vienna), Hallgrímskirkja (Reykjavík), Cathedral of the Madeleine (Salt Lake City), Hamburg Mariendom, and Kalmar Cathedral (Sweden). His many solo organ recordings include surveys of composers including Judith Bingham, Malcolm Williamson, John Joubert, Elisabeth Lutyens, and Francis Pott’s monumental organ symphony Christus. For Naxos he has recorded five critically-acclaimed volumes of music by Olivier Messiaen. His most recent releases for the same label include the complete organ works of Robert Schumann and Edward Elgar, the latter being selected as a Critic’s Choice in Gramophone magazine. His recordings as choral director include discs for Naxos of sacred music by Elizabeth Poston, Felix Mendelssohn, Michael Haydn and William Mathias. He is a trustee of the Royal College of Organists. tomwinpenny.org

Phoebe Tak Man Chow (Accompanist) is a London-based organist, accompanist, and choir director active across the UK in concerts, services, and broadcasts. She works regularly at St Martin-in-the-Fields and with the Pimlico Musical Foundation, accompanies London choirs including the London Pro Arte Choir and the University of Greenwich Choir, and works as a freelance répétiteur and pianist with the Royal Opera House, contributing to touring productions, new opera commissions with the Youth Opera Company, and projects with the National Opera Studio.

With over ten years’ experience directing choirs and leading singing workshops, Phoebe has worked with the Rodolfus Foundation as Choral Leader and Principal Accompanist. Previously, she was Assistant Director of Music at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral in Cork, Ireland, serving as principal organist and leading a diocesan schools’ singing programme.

She has collaborated with conductors and choral musicians, including Ben Parry, Suzi Digby, Eamonn Dougan, and John Rutter. Her performances have been broadcast on the BBC, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and Classic FM. She has recorded with the National Girls’ Choir of Great Britain and performed at national church occasions, including services at Lambeth Palace.

Phoebe studied at the Royal College of Music, earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and was awarded the Walford Davies Organ Prize and the Flentrop Organ Scholarship, also completing courses in the Netherlands, France, and Germany.