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The Director of Music
is Elizabeth Stratford.
She is keen to recruit new members to the choir, especially children
to help build up a core of choristers. |
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Elizabeth
was one of the first girl choristers at
St Anne’s Cathedral, Leeds, singing under the direction of Joseph
Cullen. She read for the degree of Bachelor of Music at the University
of Huddersfield and began learning the organ whilst acting Assistant
Director of Music at Christ Church, New Mill, Huddersfield and singing
with the University of Huddersfield Chamber Choir, Huddersfield Choral
Society and St Peter’s Singers. |
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She graduated
with honours in the year 2000 and on completion of her degree undertook
postgraduate studies in Liturgy and Music at the University of Leeds,
specializing in organ performance, choir training and composition.
Her tutors included Gordon Stewart, Dr Simon Lindley and Dr Philip
Wilby. During this time she was awarded a Thalben-Ball Organ Scholarship,
was made a Duchess of Leeds Millennium Scholar and was the recipient
of other scholarships for voice and composition. |
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Elizabeth became the Organist
and Director of Music at St Paul’s Church, Shipley in February
2000, and held positions as singing tutor to Bradford College and
Area Representative to the North of England for the Institute for
Liturgy and Mission. She worked for the Bradford Diocesan Liturgical
Committee, was the Education and Training Officer for RSCM Bradford
and the Assistant to the Director of Liturgical Organ Studies at Sarum
College in Salisbury, Wiltshire. In October 2002 at the age of 23,
Elizabeth was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Arundel
Cathedral, West Sussex. As such she is the first female ever to hold
this position in the UK and also the youngest Cathedral organist in
Britain appointed to date. She is an RSCM residential course tutor,
RSCM examiner, RSCM special advisor, on the board of CHIME and part
of the Catholic Directors of Music Conference. In addition she was
awarded the Fellowship of the Guild of Church Musicians last November. |
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Patricia d’Avray
was born in Ndola, Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia)
and educated at the Dominican Convent, Lusaka, where she began to
learn the piano, aged 9. When she was 14 her family moved to England
and she attended La Retraite in Bristol. She pursued sixth form studies
at Dr Challoner’s High School in Buckinghamshire, continuing
her piano studies with Tanya Polunin in London, and also began to
learn the organ at this time. |
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Upon leaving
school she read music at Bristol University, graduating with honours,
before pursuing a PGCE course in primary education at Bulmershe College
of Education in Reading. On completion she obtained a primary teaching
post in Dartford with special responsibility for music. During this
time she gained the LRAM diploma in piano teaching and subsequently
moved to teaching piano and organ privately. She was appointed Assistant
Organist at Arundel Cathedral in 1992 and gained the ARCO diploma,
studying mainly with Andrew Benians and, for a short time, with Margaret
Philips. Her post at the Cathedral is now combined with a busy private
teaching career and further organ studies, presently taken with Ann
Marsden Thomas in London. |
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