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David
Bell
FGMS ARCM FCCM FRSA
Master
Tel: 020 7488 3650
8 Clave Street, Wapping, London E1W 3XQ
Email: davidbell@orbix.co.uk
David Bell is an experienced concert organist
and has performed at concerts in Europe, North and South America,
Australia and Japan. He was organist to the conductor Herbert von
Karajan for many years, and under his direction played on a regular
basis with the highly prestigious Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He
has also played with most of the London orchestras and is a skilled
arranger of choral and organ music. Important recital venues include
St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Southwark Cathedral
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Maurice Merrell
Chairman of Council
Tel: 020 7258 1941
26 Lascelles House, Harewood Avenue,
London NW1 6NS
Maurice Merrell has had a life-long involvement with all aspects of
organ and church music. He is an organist of much experience, and
was for thirty years Organist and Director of Music at the Central
London church of St. George, Bloomsbury. There he played for a wide
range of services, bringing him into contact with choirs and soloists,
and also planning and organising many prestigious recitals and concerts.
He is Managing Director of a well-known and long-established firm
of organ-builders, a position he has held for many years. Besides
being a Fellow of the Incorporated Society of Organ Builders (also
serving on the Council) he is currently President of the London Organists’
Guild.
Maurice Merrell is a Founder Member of the Guild of Musicians
and Singers and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
in 1981.
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Ronald Cayless
FGMS LTCL AFCM HonFGCM
Honorary Treasurer
18 Roskeen Court, 45 Arterberry Road,
London SW20 8AU
Tel & Fax: 020 8947 5888
Email: rwc18@mac.com
Since becoming a choirboy at the Church of the Annunciation near Marble
Arch in London, Ronald Cayless has remained a Church Musician. In
the fifties and sixties he was Organist and Choirmaster at Holy Trinity
Church in Sloane Street, London SW1 where he ran a choir of 24 boys
and 12 men with fully choral services each week. Since 1960 he has
been the Honorary Treasurer of the Guild of Church Musicians and continues
in that post until the present day.
In the teaching profession he was the Headmaster at St Peter’s
Eaton Square CE Primary School in Lower Belgrave Street, London SW1
until his retirement in 1992. There he was very much involved with
the Music Department and ran a school orchestra of some 30 Junior
Children. Since then, he has become a “jobbing organist”;
and is currently Director of Music at Christ Church in West Wimbledon.
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Dr Michael Walsh
DMus ThD FGMS GTCL FTCL FCCM FMCM HonGCM
Secretary General
Tel/Fax: 01243 788315
5 Lime Close, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6SW
Michael Walsh studied singing and organ at the RSCM and Trinity College of Music where
he was awarded prizes for choir training, conducting and research. His main performing interest
has always been in sacred music and, after eighteen years as Head of Music at a large
comprehensive school and a Lay Clerk in Chichester and Portsmouth Cathedral Choirs, he now
divides his time between working as a freelance musician and as the Design Director of The
Better Book Company, a publishing company based in Chichester.
He is currently Conductor of the St. Richard Singers, Artistic Director and Conductor of
the Chichester Symphony Orchestra and Musical Director of the Chichester Amateur Operatic Society.
Over the years Michael has conducted many concerts during the Chichester Festivities, including
a notable Fauré Requiem in aid of Kosovo and also the millennium Messiah in Chichester Cathedral
in the BT “Voices for Hospices” series.
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