George Thomas Moss    1901 - 1906
Died February 23rd 1920.

Simon Lawford     1991 - 1992
1977-1980       Organ Scholar, Magdalen College, Oxford
1980-1986       Assistant Organist, Peterborough Cathedral
1986-1990       Assistant Organist, Christ Church, Oxford
1990-1991       Organist, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
1991-1992       Organist, St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town
1992-1994       Organist and Director of Music, Hampstead Parish Church
1994 -              Director of Music, St Georges’s Cathedral, Perth, Australia

Simon Lawford received his early musical training as a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, from Dr Christopher Dearnley. In 1977 he won the organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied under Dr Bernard Rose.

In 1980, he was appointed Assistant Organist at Peterborough Cathedral, and in 1986 moved to Christ Church, Oxford, as Assistant to Stephen Darlington. Together with this choir, and as soloist, he took part in numerous performances for BBC radio and TV, as well as  recordings and concerts throughout France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Scandinavia, Canada and USA. Following a year in France as Organist at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, he was appointed Director of Music at Hampstead Parish Church, where he instituted an important series of concerts and recitals. During this time he worked with the London Philharmonic Choir, the City of London Sinfonia, the Hanover Band, the Oxford Bach Choir, and the St EndellionFestival.

In January 1994, he took up his present appointment as Organist and Director of Music at St George’s Cathedral, Perth. He also directs St George’s Baroque Consort, specialising in the authentic performance of early music. This group has been widely acclaimed for its outstanding concerts featuring a wide variety of repertoire, including the first ever performances to use period instruments in WA of Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St John Passion. He is in constant demand throughout WA as a recitalist, conductor and continuo player. He has performed the complete ‘48’ Preludes and Fugues of J. S. Bach at a series of recitals in St George’s Cathedral and was broadcast by the ABC as soloist with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Poulenc’s Organ Concerto.

Peter St. John Stokes   Dec 1992 -
Peter St.John Stokes was born in Yorkshire in 1944.  He started playing the organ at school, and from the age of sixteen had lessons with Dr Francis Jackson, organist of York Minster.  He went to Trinity College of Music, London, where he studied organ, singing and orchestral conducting as well as composition with Dr Arnold Cooke.  He also has a degree in French and a MMus in historical musicology from Kings College, London.   As a former pupil of Naji Hakim, organist of La Trinité, Paris, he takes a particular interest in improvisation. 

He taught, first in London, and then for twenty-one years as Director of Music at Loreto College, St Albans.   During this time he continued to play the organ and to be involved in choral conducting, having given many concerts both in this country and abroad.

Previous organist positions include St Giles-the-Fields, London and Dunstable Priory.  Currently working as a freelance musician and teacher, since 1992 he has been organist of St Silas, Kentish Town.