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Salford Cathedral Choir
Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist


Salford Cathedral Choir

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Cathedral Music
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The Choir
... ( Joining )
... ( Scholarships )
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	Martin Barry has been choirmaster and director of music at St John's Cathedral since 1995. He studied Modern and Medieval Languages and Computer Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, and moved to Manchester in 1989 to take up the role of lecturer in phonetics at Manchester University, where he remained until 2008. He was head of the Department of Linguistics and English Language from 2002 to 2008, and retains a connection with the University as honorary lecturer in phonetics. He now works full time as one of the UK's tiny band of experts in forensic speech analysis. Martin is a former editor of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association, and was the pronunciation editor for the most recent edition of The Chambers Dictionary (2008). Martin is active as a composer of liturgical music, and some of his compositions are published by GIA Publications, by Decani Music and by the Society of St Gregory.

Address:	Martin Barry, Choirmaster and Director of Music Cathedral House 250 Chapel Street Salford M3 5LL
Telephone:	0161 443 4104 (Daytime)

Email:	Martin Barry

	Anthony Hunt is the Organist of St. John’s Cathedral. He studied the organ under Simon Leach and Richard Lea, and before moving to Salford worked freelance in over twenty churches in his native Liverpool. He read French and Latin at Manchester University, and in 1995 was elected to the organ scholarship at St. John’s. He became the Cathedral’s organist in September 2000. He is a regular recitalist, both in Manchester and elsewhere in the UK, and abroad, in Paris and Montbrison, France. He is also in demand as an accompanist, and has played in many broadcasts on television and radio.

Telephone:	0161 831 9045
Email:	Anthony Hunt

Daniel Bath deputises as director of music and accompanist, and has written many pieces of music sung by the choir. Daniel read music at Clare College, Cambridge and lives in Todmorden with his wife, Ali, and four children.

He teaches piano and voice, and directs choirs, including Halifax Chamber Choir and Calderdale Youth Choir. He performs as a jazz and classical pianist and harpsichordist and is musical director of the Actors' Workshop Youth Theatre in Halifax, where he is leading some ground-breaking work in youth opera.

Daniel is a composer of opera, film music, theatre music, songs, and Catholic liturgical music. He is currently studying Indian classical singing, and his diverse musical interests are reflected in his own compositions.

Find out more about Daniel's work at www.handstogether.co.uk

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