The Guild of Musicians and Singers

	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 and Liverpool Cathedral.

	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.

	Ronald Cayless FGMS LTCL AFCM HonFGCM Honorary Treasurer 18 Roskeen Court, 45 Arterberry Road, London SW20 8AU Tel & Fax: 020 8947 5888 Email: rwc@orbix.co.uk 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.

	Michael Newman-Horwell MA BEd. Dip.ECS FCIL FGMS AAHI FASC Secretary-General Tel: 01483 274148 Fax: 01483 277396 4 Cranbrook Terrace, Cranleigh, Surrey GU6 7ES Email: newman.horwell@btinternet.com As a lifelong chorister, Michael has a great love of all music both sacred and secular. Following a distinguished career as Head of Fine Art and the History of Art & Design in a Surrey secondary school, Michael became a primary school Headteacher in 1993. After 28 fulfilling years in the teaching profession, he planned a major career change and now works for English Heritage as the South East Historic House Education Officer. Michael sings in the choir of St. Nicolas Cranleigh, and also with the Surrey Police Choir. In his spare time he builds and restores pipe organs.

	Dr Michael Walsh DMus ThD FGMS GTCL FTCL FCCM FMCM HonGCM Editor of the Newsletter 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.