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Cappella is excited to welcome Drew Cantrill-Fenwick as our interim conductor for the 2024-25 season while our regular conductor Simon Lee is on sabbatical, as the Interim Director of Music at Trinity on the Green Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Drew Cantrill-Fenwick is one of the UK’s most experienced and versatile church musicians. His career has taken him to three continents, working in schools, churches and cathedrals, and he has appeared in some of the world’s most prestigious venues as conductor and organist. He is a Fellow, prize winner, and examiner of the Royal College of Organists, and examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Drew was educated at Durham University, and studied the organ with Lady Susi Jeans, Peter Wright, James Lancelot and Gerre Hancock. Appointed Master of the Choristers at Grimsby Parish Church at the age of just 23, he went on to hold similar positions at the Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul, New Zealand; St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo, NY, USA; Croydon Minster, London; and The Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Suffolk.

In recent years, Drew has been increasingly in demand as a teacher, and as a writer and lecturer on the organ and organ performance. His articles have appeared in Organists’ Review and Cathedral Music, and he has lectured for the RCO and IAO. He is responsible for much of the digital media on the RCO’s virtual campus, iRCO, as producer and presenter, and is the director of the RCO’s flagship Summer Course, held annually in London. He is currently engaged in doctoral research at Newcastle University in French organ culture 1801-48.

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