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Details of Organists
Dr.Sidney Campbell (1910-74) was organist of a number of parish churches before leaving St. Peter's Collegiate Church,
Wolverhampton, in 1947, in order to become Sub-Warden of the Royal School of Church Music, then situated in Canterbury. In 1949 he was appointed Organist of Ely Cathedral, and subsequently of Southwark Cathedral.
After two and a half years at Southwark, Dr. Campbell returned to Canterbury in 1956 as Cathedral Organist. One of his last and most exacting tasks in that capacity was to play and direct the music for the Enthronement of Dr.Michael Ramsey as Archbishop in 1961. For that service he composed music for the Responses, fanfares, and a setting of the Te Deum. In September of the same year he moved to Windsor, and the latest rebuilding of the organ was undertaken under his aegis, and completed in 1965.
Whilst organist of St. George's, Dr.Campbell wrote a number of responses and litanies to embellish the liturgy, and his performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in the last years of his life were greatly appreciated. At the time of his death he was actively engaged in planning for the Quincentenary of the building of the chapel in 1975.
Christopher Robinson was appointed organist in 1975 and left in
1991 to go to St. John's College, Cambridge. A number of recordings under
his leadership are still available. For more biography go to the St
John's College page.
Jonathan Rees Williams
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