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) studied in London at the Royal College of Music where she was awarded the Walford Davies Organ Prize. The Flentrop Organ Scholarship funded her internship with the Flentrop Orgelbouwand and organ lessons at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. After graduating, Phoebe became the Organist at Emanuel School, London, before moving to Ireland to become the Assistant Director of Music at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, Ireland. She performed live on Irish National Television with the Cathedral Choir to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. She currently holds the position of Choral Leader for the Rodolfus Foundation, Accompanist for the London Pro Arte Choir, and Assistant Organist at St Martin-in-the-Fields working with professional and voluntary choirs, directing singing workshops at schools in the borough of Lambeth and Southwark each week, recruiting choristers for St John’s the Divine Church, where over 80 young people receive free music education. As an accompanist, she has worked with leading British choral conductors such as Ben Parry, John Rutter and Suzi Digby. With St Martin’s Voices and the Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields, she has worked on several recordings for the BBC and the Church of England.