St Mary’s Music

Information about music at St Mary’s Church, Thornbury

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ST MARY’S CHURCH CHOIR


















Thornbury Benefice website is here.

Services are live-streamed on this YouTube channel.


Here is the St Mary’s Music Facebook page.


Click here for our repertoire and here for the current year’s choral music programme.


Directors of Music






















Ian and Kate Phillipson-Masters have been assistant and interim Directors of Music since 1997.


Old photos


With Malcolm Kittle






















The church choir in Switzerland in 2019 with Joachim’s choir

















With Joachim Schwander
































With Hugo Kennard










































With Phil Wilby


































Ray Hillman


Dates

Director of Music

September 2022 -

Alex Hiam

January - September 2022

Martin Firth (interim)

October 2017 - December 2021

Malcolm Kittle

August 2014 - April 2017

Joachim Schwander

November 2012- May 2014

Hugo Kennard

September 2009 - July 2012

Phil Wilby

August 1990 - May 2009

Ray Hillman

January 1986 - July 1990

Nigel Davies

1980 - December 1985

Simon Johnson

July 1971 - July 1980

David Hocking

April 1965 - July 1971

Wilfred Purnell

1946 - March 1965

Albert William Jenkins

April - July 1946

Donovan Appleby

1944 - March 1946

George Courtney Chambers

1926 - 1944

Ernest G Pitman

1924 - 1925

Frank Edmonds

1864 - 1924

John Taylor Chambers

? - 1864

Thomas James

1853? - ?

T S Salter

? - 1853

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John Lewis