Musical Director
Christopher Denton
Christopher Denton was born in Leeds,
and joined his first church choir at the age of seven. He studied Music at
the University of Sussex in Brighton and after nine years working as an organist
and choir director in the area he took up the Organ Scholarship at Chichester
Cathedral in 1997-1998, later becoming Acting Assistant Organist at Ripon
Cathedral. After spending some years as an organist in Norway Chris
returned to the UK in 2007 as Assistant Organist at Newport Cathedral, and in
February 2010 he moved back to Yorkshire to pursue a career as a freelance
musician. Chris has toured with choirs both as MD and accompanist and has
given concerts in the USA and Europe. He is married to Camilla and they
have a young son, Benjamin.
Chris has taken over from Nicholas Hewlett whom we welcomed on 29th May 2009 as our Musical Director.
Nicholas introduced us to a number of different types of music, among them sprituals, contemporary pieces, and Bob Chilcott's Little Jazz Mass. Unfortunately, Nicholas had to leave us due to ill health, but we hope he will continue to keep an association with us.
Prior
to Nicholas, we
were very lucky to secure the services of Tim Knight until the end
of last April.
Tim is an enthusiastic and dynamic conductor, as sure as eggs are eggs - current members will understand what is meant by this!!
Now that we have performed our concert with Tim, we have said goodbye to him, but we think we may not have seen the last of him............
More information about Tim can be found here