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

Ben Markovic (Accompanist) is a London-based freelance pianist, organist, and teacher. He holds the posts of Director of Music and Organist at St Mary’s Barnes and Assistant Organist at St Michael’s Cornhill. He is a Royal Academy of Opera Repetiteur Fellow, having previously studied at the same institution with James Cheung and Joseph Middleton and Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he held the Organ Scholarship. Ben is Director of Music and Organist at St Mary’s Church, Barnes where he directs the Junior and Parish choirs and the scholarship schemes. There he also curates the ‘At 3’ series – a new informal platform for early-career professionals to perform. He is closely involved with the Barnes Music Festival, having worked as staff pianist for their series of masterclasses and competition, as well as giving song and chamber recitals in the festival proper. Ben is in demand as a keyboard player, having worked with ensembles including the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Choral Sinfonia, Monteverdi Choir, the choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, St Martin’s Voices, and London Concert Choir. He has worked as a staff pianist for Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop, Tosti International Singing Academy, Rodolfus Foundation and National Children’s Choir of Great Britain. Ben is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and a Licentiate of Trinity College London (in piano performance, with distinction).