Choir Staff and Organ Scholars

Director of Music - Richard Pinel

Richard Pinel took up the post of Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge in 2017. Prior to this he spent nearly eight years as Assistant Director of Music of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, during which time he gained international recognition as an organist. He also held similar posts at Magdalen College, Oxford and Perth Cathedral, Australia and the organ scholarship of St Albans Cathedral and Magdalen College, Oxford. Read Richard's full biography.

Tel: 01223 339474
Email: director-of-music@jesus.cam.ac.uk

Choir and Chapel Administrator – Alice Kane

You can contact the Choir and Chapel Administrator about concerts and the choirs.

Tel: 01223 339699
Email: choir@jesus.cam.ac.uk

Senior Organ Scholar – Jordan Wong

Jordan Wong was born in 1996, and is the Senior Organ Scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he is in his second year reading Classics. His daily roles include accompanying the two choirs, assisting with the training of the choristers, and sometimes conducting services.

Born in Hong Kong, Jordan had some organ lessons at Ying Wa College, before going to Monmouth School in 2009. At Monmouth, he was the Malcolmson Organ Scholar for four years, studying with David Lawson. There he played and sang for chapel services, accompanied and occasionally conducted the Chapel Choir. During his schooldays, he also regularly played for Sunday Eucharists at St Peter's Church, Dixton. Jordan was a singer and a répétiteur for the School's Choral Society, covering great works such as Mozart's Great Mass, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. Jordan had been involved in the premieres of pieces commissioned by the School, such as Colin Mawby's O God of Battles, and The Truth Sent from Above by Alan Bullard, which he conducted last December.

He is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, and has played in venues such as St John's College and Trinity College, Cambridge, St David's Cathedral, as well as the Basilica of St Nazaire et St Celse in Carcassonne. He currently studies with Gordon Stewart. Apart from the organ, Jordan has also been a keen pianist from the age of three, and has performed Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1with the Wye Sinfonia at the Wyastone Concert Hall.

Tel: 01223 766973
Email: choir@jesus.cam.ac.uk

Junior Organ Scholar – Dewi Rees

Dewi Rees is the Junior Organ Scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he is in his first year reading music. His role is to assist the Director of Music by accompanying the choirs, taking rehearsals, helping to train the choristers, and conducting the choirs.

Dewi was born in 1998 and became a chorister at Westminster Abbey at the age of seven, where he sang in daily services as well as at events such as Pope Benedict XVI's visit to London in 2010 and the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011. During his time at the Abbey he also played the trumpet and the piano, and was subsequently awarded a Music Scholarship to The King's School, Canterbury. Dewi started learning the organ in his second year at King's, taught by David Newsholme. He frequently accompanied the school choirs for their weekly services in Canterbury Cathedral and in his final year played continuo for performances of J.S. Bach's St John Passion in Canterbury Cathedral and the Église Saint-Jacques in Reims, as well as a performance of Britten's St Nicolas with the Festival Chamber Orchestra directed by David Newsholme.

Dewi became an Associate of the Royal College of Organists in 2016, winning the Lord St Audries Prize, and has given organ recitals at venues including the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He now studies the organ with Gordon Stewart and David Briggs.

Email: choir@jesus.cam.ac.uk

Former Directors of Music	Former Organ Scholars
1998 Timothy Byram-Wigfield 2003 Daniel Hyde 2009 Mark Williams	1919 Adrian Edgar Lucius Burr 1924 John Gerald Hall 1929 Joseph Weston Poole 1929 Thomas Quibell 1932 Vernon Harcourt Rhodes 1938 Hilary Clifton Kelynack 1946 James Donald Cox 1946 Eric William Copperwheat 1948 Peter Hurford 1952 Richard Lloyd 1954 Peter Gay Fletcher 1957 John Rosser Turner 1960 Michael Burnett 1963 David Sheeran Butterworth 1967 Robert Ernest Walker 1968 Michael Baker 1968 Terence Albright 1971 Julian Couzens 1972 Malcolm Archer 1975 James Robert Sydney Wrightson 1977 Henry Roderick Shaw 1979 James A. O’Donnell	1981 Stephen P.A. Young 1982 Geraint Bowen 1984 Christopher Argent 1985 David Swinson 1987 Andrew David King 1989 Timothy Horton 1990 Daniel Phillips 1992 Charles Harrison 1993 Duncan Aspden 1995 Gregory Morris 1996 Julian Thomas 1998 Thomas Corns 1999 Anthony Smith 2001 Samuel Gladstone 2002 James Kennerley 2004 David Humphreys 2005 Samuel Hanson 2008 Thomas Chatterton (Assistant Organist) 2008 Timothy Lambourn 2010 Robert George Dixon 2011 Benjamin Morris 2013 Bertie Baigent