Mark Shepherd gained his early musical training as a chorister of Westminster Abbey. He was organ scholar of Exeter College, Oxford where he studied with Nicolas Kynaston and David Sanger. Before being appointed to St Mary's, Warwick he was Assistant Organist of Lichfield Cathedral, and he now devotes much of his time to conducting four choirs, three based in Warwick. In addition to St Mary's choir, he also directs the St Mary's Girls Choir, a choral society, and Oxford's leading Chamber Choir, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, who also feature on the Guild Label