Tom Winpenny (Musical Director) is Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral where his duties include directing the acclaimed Cathedral Girls Choir and accompanying the daily choral services. Previously he was Sub-Organist at St Paul’s Cathedral, where he played for many great state occasions. He has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio and has featured on American Public Media’s Pipedreams. He was Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, graduating with a music degree and twice accompanying the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast worldwide. Recent solo recital venues have included Southwark Cathedral, New College, Oxford, Kalmar Cathedral (Sweden), and Santa Maria Nuova, Fano (Italy). He has also appeared as organ soloist in John Rutter’s Christmas Celebration concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. His many recordings include discs for Naxos of choral works by Felix Mendelssohn, Michael Haydn and William Mathias, Messiaen’s organ cycles La Nativité du Seigneur and L’Ascension and surveys of organ music by British composers including Judith Bingham, Francis Pott and Malcolm Williamson. 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.