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Simon Lee holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Yale University and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music where he studied under the tutelage of Marguerite L. Brooks, Jeffrey Douma and David Hill. During his time in Connecticut, he was conductor of the Marquand Chapel Choir at Yale Divinity School, the Morse Chorale and temporarily the Director of Music at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church, New Haven. In 2017, he was a semi-finalist in the American Choral Directors’ Association’s national Graduate Conducting Competition.
Born and raised in the northwest of England, Simon began his musical career as a chorister at Lancaster Priory. He studied clarinet and saxophone performance at Leeds University where he was also a choral scholar at Leeds RC Cathedral. Upon graduation from Leeds in 2009, he moved to Durham to take up the post of tenor Lay Clerk at the Cathedral there. He completed a PGCE in Primary Education at Durham University in 2012, and having done this taught in schools across the north-east. He is in demand as both a tenor soloist and a visiting conductor as well as working regularly with a variety of choirs ranging from children’s groups to professional ensembles.
Simon is currently on sabbatical in the USA. We are very pleased that Drew Cantrill-Fenwick has agreed to conduct the choir for the 2024-25 season. 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.