Appointments 2

[Positif]

I see Keble Oxford and Queens Cambridge are both advertising for a new Director of Music.  Essentially the same hours, same requirements, same sort of set up.  Keble offer a FTE salary of £49,667; Queens £31,250!

[DHM]

James O’Donnell to leave Westminster Abbey at Christmas after nearly 23 years, to take up a Professorship at Yale.

[Martin Cooke]

13 hours ago, DHM said:

James O’Donnell to leave Westminster Abbey at Christmas after nearly 23 years, to take up a Professorship at Yale.

A highly successful innings by Dr O'Donnell. With this post and also the permanent Organist job at St Paul's still going since Simon Johnson moved to Westminster Cathedral, there should be some interesting shuffling to follow.

[David Cynan Jones]

News of the appointment of former Sheffield Cathedral Organist and Master of the Choristers to Winchester.

https://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/news/joshua-stephens-joins-winchester-cathedral-as-sub-organist/

[David Cynan Jones]

Adrian Bawtree appointed Organist & Master of the Choristers at Rochester Cathedral.

https://www.rochestercathedral.org/articles/2022/5/9/appointment-of-director-of-music-and-organist

Edited May 9, 2022 by David Cynan Jones
updated info

[DHM]

Good news for Rochester. This will be Adrian's 3rd job here, having worked at the Cathedral as Organist 2013-2015 and Interim Director of Music 2018-2019.
The job title for the last few years has been "Director of Music and Organist" (since the DoM appointed in 2008 was not required to be an organist).

[Guest]

The Westminster Abbey job advert is out:

https://www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/jobs-volunteering/employment-opportunities

[S_L]

1 hour ago, michaelwilson said:

The Westminster Abbey job advert is out:

https://www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/jobs-volunteering/employment-opportunities

Two things I notice from the application pack:

1) The historic office of “Organist and Master of the Choristers” is open to candidates of any gender, and whilst this document reflects the convention that the two roles have been held in combination, we are open to applications from exceptional choral directors with the ability to lead across the full range of the Abbey’s music but who are not organists or would not wish to perform in that capacity.

The first, of course, is a now legal requirement but I am pleased to note that the next Master of the Choristers need not be an organist.

2) An early priority for the incoming Organist and Master of the Choristers would be to review and agree with Chapter the planned approach to the introduction of girl choristers and to lead its implementation in the near future

Absolutely!!

[Guest]

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I also noticed the mandatory live-in requirement which I wasn't aware of but makes sense I suppose. A free house with no utility bills though, I doubt many cathedrals offer that.

[Phoneuma]

1 hour ago, S_L said:

Two things I notice from the application pack:

1) The historic office of “Organist and Master of the Choristers” is open to candidates of any gender, and whilst this document reflects the convention that the two roles have been held in combination, we are open to applications from exceptional choral directors with the ability to lead across the full range of the Abbey’s music but who are not organists or would not wish to perform in that capacity.

The first, of course, is a now legal requirement but I am pleased to note that the next Master of the Choristers need not be an organist.

2) An early priority for the incoming Organist and Master of the Choristers would be to review and agree with Chapter the planned approach to the introduction of girl choristers and to lead its implementation in the near future

Absolutely!!

I’m in total agreement with both of your points here!

[Classic car man]

Internal appointment of Stephen Mannings to DOM at Liverpool Cathedral following Lee Ward's departure last year.  

[David Cynan Jones]

On 10/06/2022 at 20:13, Classic car man said:

Internal appointment of Stephen Mannings to DOM at Liverpool Cathedral following Lee Ward's departure last year.  

Mr Mannings is listed as Interim Director of Music, which may be subject to the post being  advertised. Has anyone seen an advert of confirmation of a substantive appointment? 

[Classic car man]

Just because the Cathedral has been low key about this, David, doesn't mean my post was inaccurate, but yes, this appointment is confirmed, else I wouldn't have posted to the group!

Notwithstanding personal contact, this from facebook a couple of weeks ago:

 

Choral Eucharist at Liverpool Cathedral is at 10.30am and will be sung by the boys’ girls’ and adult voices of the Cathedral Choir, directed by newly appointed Director of Music, Stephen Mannings and accompanied by Ian Tracey, Cathedral Organist.

 

[David Cynan Jones]

On 18/06/2022 at 22:23, Classic car man said:

Just because the Cathedral has been low key about this, David, doesn't mean my post was inaccurate, but yes, this appointment is confirmed, else I wouldn't have posted to the group!

Notwithstanding personal contact, this from facebook a couple of weeks ago:

 

Choral Eucharist at Liverpool Cathedral is at 10.30am and will be sung by the boys’ girls’ and adult voices of the Cathedral Choir, directed by newly appointed Director of Music, Stephen Mannings and accompanied by Ian Tracey, Cathedral Organist.

 

Thanks for confirming this. I did not mean to call into question the integrity of your post it's just that as you say the Cathedral has not publicised the appointment.

[David Cynan Jones]

New appointment at Keble

The College is delighted to announce the appointment of Christopher Bucknall as Director of Music at Keble from September following the retirement of Paul Brough.

 

[Classic car man]

Andy Scott to be next MD of H&H

[David Cynan Jones]

New appointment at Worcester College, Oxford.

Worcester College is delighted to be building on its long and distinguished musical history with the appointment of a new Director of College Music.

Helen Smee joins the College as the first holder of this position. Since 2011 Helen has been Director of Music in the south-west London parish of St Mary Merton, where her work included the considerable expansion of the choral and organ provision for young people in the local area. A talented choral trainer with strong interests in widening representation and participation in music, Helen is also director of the Frideswide Voices of Christ Church, the resident girls’ choir in the cathedral, which had its beginnings in Worcester College Chapel in 2014 and which sang here for several years. Helen studied at Cambridge and at the Royal Academy of Music, at which she has recently been made Associate. She has also worked with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and co-founded the Voices of London Festival in 2013.

https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/about/news/new-director-college-music

[David Cynan Jones]

Assistant Needed at Norwich on a Three Year max contract.

https://jobs.churchtimes.co.uk/jobs/Assistant-Organist-in-East-Anglia-jn10281

[DHM]

Do we know where the current post-holder is going?

[David Cynan Jones]

I presume that the contract was only for three years.

[Guest]

Andrew Nethsingha to Westminster Abbey!

[David Cynan Jones]

This article from the Abbey website 

https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/andrew-nethsingha-appointed-organist-and-master-of-the-choristers?fs=e&s=cl&fbclid=IwAR1MxFT2zwgrzaxdb4VTgLWBq6hj_kmySbIx6VJzY9_q3Q8z9u3AJU-V5qM

This from St John's -

https://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/news/andrew-nethsingha-appointed-westminster-abbey?fbclid=IwAR17bSSjuO1Bq_6OtMAth4qk87cCx19QZdBLkGK0hXw0h6u2PHuQiBdE1aM

[John Furse]

Lucian would have been so proud.

This is a fantastic appointment. There is no finer choir trainer in the 'cathedral'/college world; John's has just got better and better.

It begs the question what will happen to the mooted change of instrument at St John's.

[MikeK]

57 minutes ago, Andrew Butler said:

It will save them some money!  John's has quite a tradition of new organists being dissatisfied with the instrument they find!

Perhaps the new incumbent will continue the tradition?

[Positif]

Another big Cambridge job available as Richard Pinel moves on from Jesus Cambridge...