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Geoffrey Webber Tmusical
education began as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral under Richard Seal, and
then continued as Music Scholar at The King's School, Worcester, where his
teachers included Christopher Robinson, Harry Bramma and Paul Trepte. In 1977
he was elected to an Organ Scholarship at New College, Oxford, where his organ
teachers included Gillian Weir and Nicholas Danby. After graduating with a
First in Music he took the further degrees of M.Phil. and D. Phil., combining
this with activites as both organist and choir director. He became Assisting
Organist at Magdalen College in 1982 and was appointed as University Organist
and Director of Music at the University Church in 1984. During this time he
also served as Director of the Edington Music Festival, a festival of music and
liturgy, at Edington, Wiltshire. In 1989 he was appointed Precentor and
Director of Studies in Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (in
succession to Charles Wood, Patrick Hadley and Peter Tranchell). He now divides
his time between research, conducting, organ playing, editing and teaching. He
also serves on the publishing committees of the Church Music Society and the
Royal College of Organists, and his publications include North German Church
Music in the Age of Buxtehude (OUP, 1996) and, as co-editor, the
Cambridge Companion to the Organ (CUP, 1998).Geoffrey Webber on Guild Music
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