Paul Bryan
Paul Bryan brings a wealth of musical experience to Chantry Sound.
A music graduate and FRCO, Paul was Director of Music at St John's College School, Cambridge for over twenty years. At St John's, Paul led the largest Choir School music department in the country, and had a particular responsibility for the musical education of the world-famous choristers. Paul also formed and conducted the Walmisley Singers and Cambridge Pro Musica Orchestra who regularly performed and recorded in the College Chapel.
As a Concert Organist, Paul has performed widely both in this country and abroad in countries as diverse as Norway and South Africa and he has given recitals in many of this country's major Cathedrals and concert venues. Paul is currently Organist to the Ely Cathedral Octagon Singers, where he greatly enjoys playing the famous Harrison organ.
Paul has over eighty works for choir and solo organ published worldwide by companies such as Animus, Banks, Hope Publishing, Kevin Mayhew and the RSCM. Recent works have included Songs of Sion for the Norwich Cathedral Girls' Choir - given its first performance in the USA - and the Cathedral's Boy Choristers have recorded his Norwich Service for Priory Records.
Since 2000, Paul has been piano accompanist for the soprano Kate Woolf, and they perform extensively together throughout the UK.
