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Tom Winpenny is Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral, UK,
where his duties include accompanying the daily choral services and directing
the Cathedral Girls Choir. He studied as Organ Scholar at King’s College,
Cambridge, where he played twice for the Festival of Nine Lessons and
Carols, broadcast internationally. He was subsequently Sub-Organist at St
Paul's Cathedral, London, where he played for many great state occasions.
He has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio and has been featured on
American Public Media's Pipedreams. In recent years he has performed
throughout Europe, the United States and the UK at venues including
Hamburg Mariendom, Kalmar Cathedral (Sweden), Grace Cathedral (San
Francisco), and Westminster Cathedral (London). Concerts in 2023 include
recitals at St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna and the Summartónar Festival,
Faroes. His many solo organ recordings include surveys of music by British
composers including Judith Bingham, Malcolm Williamson, John Joubert,
Elisabeth Lutyens, and Francis Pott’s monumental organ symphony Christus.
For Naxos he has recorded five critically-acclaimed volumes of music by
Olivier Messiaen, including the Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité
at Hallgrímskirkja. His most recent release, of music by Edward Elgar, was

selected as a Critic’s Choice in Gramophone magazine. His recordings as
choral director include discs for Naxos of sacred music by Felix Mendelssohn
and Michael Haydn.