Sarah Baldock

Sarah Baldock

Sarah Baldock (born 1975) is an English organist and choral conductor, at present the Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral. She is notable as one of two women to be the first appointed to the senior music post at a Church of England cathedral. She is married to counter-tenor David Hurley. Baldock has become known as a popular soloist in the UK and abroad.

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Education and early career

Baldock was educated as a music scholar at St Paul's Girls' School in London and then as organ scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge, winning prizes in the RCO diploma examinations and a bursary for postgraduate study with David Sanger and Thomas Trotter. She was a finalist in the 1998 Calgary International, and prizewinner at the 2000 Odense and 2002 Dallas International Organ Competitions.

Baldock has been a faculty member of the Calgary, Edinburgh and Oundle Organ Courses, and involved in education projects at the Royal Festival Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall. Sarah has directed choral workshops in the UK, US, Norway and Sweden. Performances have included concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra and solo concerts in the Channel Islands, Europe, US and Canada.

Tonbridge School

Baldock was Organist in Residence at Tonbridge School in Kent and in 1998 she released a solo CD on the Marcussen organ in Tonbridge School Chapel for Herald.

Winchester

In 1998 Sarah moved to Winchester Cathedral where she founded the Girls’ Choir and in 2002 became Assistant Director of Music, accompanying the Choir in daily services, tours, broadcasts and recordings. During her time in Winchester she was accompanist to the Waynflete Singers and Organ Performance Tutor at the University of Southampton.

Chichester

In December 2007, Baldock she was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral on the retirement of Alan Thurlow. She took up the post after Easter 2008, becoming, with Katherine Dienes-Williams of Guildford Cathedral, the earliest appointments of a woman to the senior music post at a Church of England cathedral.

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Cultural offices
Preceded by
Alan Thurlow
Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral
2008
Succeeded by
Incumbent

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