| Ward, James C |
James Ward was born in Belleville, Illinois, USA in March 1950.
He received a BA in Music at Covenant College in 1972 and an MM in Jazz piano from the University of Tennessee in 1996.
James was… |
| Novello, Vincent |
b St Marylebone, London (Middx) 1781, d Nice, France 1861. The son of a Piedmontese pastrycook who settled in London with his English wife and wanted the best possible education for their children. He… |
| Foundling Hospital Collection |
London, 1796 and 1801. Originally Psalms, Hymns and Anthems of the Foundling Hospital, followed by other edns. Musically this London orphanage, famous for its organists and its singing children,… |
| Daniels, John |
b Cowplain, nr Portsmouth, Hants 1951. After schooling at Churcherâs Coll, Petersfield, he worked for 2 engineering companies (ONC, Business Studies) until moving into full time Christian music in… |
| Ackley, Bentley DeForest |
b Spring Hill, Pa, USA 1872, d Winona Lake, Indiana, USA 1958. As a boy he learned at least 5 different instruments including brass, woodwind and keyboard, taking a part in his fatherâs 14- piece… |
| Simpkin, Richard Benjamin |
b Bloxwich, Staffs 1969. Eton College (music scholar); Gonville and Caius Coll Cambridge (organ scholar, BA/MA). His musical life began in the choir of Lichfield Cathedral, where as a violinist he… |
| Buck, Percy Carter |
b West Ham, Essex 1871, d Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey 1947. Merchant Taylorsâ Sch, GSM, RCM (under CHH Parry), and Organist at Worcester Coll Oxford (1891â94); BA, MA, MusD in 1897. He was… |
| Niles, Daniel Thambyrajah |
b Telipallai, Sri Lanka 1908, d Vellore, S India 1970. Univ of Ceylon (law); ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1932. He became a Local Minister and Circuit Superintendent, Chairman of N Ceylon… |
| Bizet, Georges Alexandre CĂ©sar LĂ©opold |
b Paris, France 1838, d Bougival, nr Paris 1875. His early musical talent was encouraged mainly by his mother, and he was enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 9. For the next 9 years this… |
| Gabriel, Charles Hutchinson |
b Wilton, Iowa, USA 1856, d Los Angeles, California 1932. He spent his first 17 years working on the family farm, but also writing verse and teaching himself to play the newly-acquired small reed… |
| Kelly, Thomas |
b Stradbally (Kellyville), Queenâs County, Ireland 1769, d Dublin 1855. Trinity Coll Dublin. Although trained in law and intending to follow his father in a legal career, he was converted from… |
| Summers, Joseph |
b Frome (or Charlton nr Yeovil?), Som 1843, d Australia 1916. While a choirboy at Wells Cathedral in Somerset, one of his responsibilities was to make copies of the anthems and other service musicâa… |
| Athanasius |
b Alexandria, Egypt c296, d Alexandria c373. After education probably in the cityâs catechetical sch, he became sec to the bishop, attending him at the Council of Nicaea in 325 and succeeding him 3… |
| Baughen, Michael Alfred |
b Borehamwood, Herts 1930. Bromley County Grammar Sch, Kent and (after brief spells at Martinâs Bank) Oak Hill Theol Coll (BD London). Ordained (CofE) 1956; curacies at Nottingham and Reigate… |
| Thomas, John |
b Blaenannerch, Cardigans, S Wales 1839, d Llanwrtyd Wells, Breconshire 1921. Known by both his birthplace and his later home of Llanwrtyd. Apprenticed to a shop in Newcastle Emlyn, but returned to… |
| Kitson, Charles Herbert |
b Leyburn, N Yorks 1874, d Kensington, W London 1944. Ripon Sch, Yorks, and Selwyn Coll Cambridge (organ scholar, divinity prize, MA). He studied music further at Oxford, and not pursuing his original… |
| Nyberg, Anders |
b Sweden 1955 (not in Praise! index). A Swedish choral conductor, arranger and publisher whose name is not included in Praise!, though he is credited with collecting and translating stz 1 of 891. He… |
| Bliss, Philip P(aul) |
b Clearfield Co, Pa, USA 1838, d nr Ashtabula, Ohio, USA 1876. Originally named âPhilippâ, he later dropped the final âpâ and used it as a second initial. He was born in a log house and worked… |
| Pestel(l), Thomas |
b ?Leicester 1584/5, d Leicester 1667 (1659?). Queenâs Coll Cambridge; he was then ordained and became Rector of Packington, nr Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics, until handing over to his son, with whom… |
| Sayers, James (Jim) David |
b Epsom, Surrey 1966. Ashcombe Sch Dorking, Univ Coll of Wales, Aberystwyth (LL.B) and Edinburgh Theological Seminary (DipTh, M.Th). After two and a half years as assistant to Brian Edwards at Hook… |
| Zundel, Veronica |
Born Coventry, 1953, of Austrian refugee parents; Barrs Hill Girlsâ Grammar Sch, Coventry, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Univ (English, BA 1975). She is married to Ed Sirett, an engineering… |
| Haworth, Bryn |
b Darwen, Lancs 1948. At 11 he was given his first guitar and has loved the instrument ever since. By the age of 16 he had moved from classical to electric guitar and was touring with Cliff Richard… |
| Norwood, John Thomas |
b Old Hill, Staffs 1934, d Halesowen, W Midlands 2005. Windsor High Sch, Halesowen; Martineau Teacher Training Coll Birmingham (DipTMH); Birmingham Poly (Diploma in Management). He worked as the… |
| Hopkins, Edward John |
b Westminster, London (Middx) 1818, d Camden Town, N London 1901. One of a musical family, he was a Chapel Royal chorister at the age of 8 (1826â33), proficient at the organ from boyhood and… |
| Dykes, John Bacchus |
b Kingston-upon-Hull 1823, d Ticehurst, Sussex 1876. Son of a musical banker, he learned violin and piano but loved the organ best. An organist at 10 at St Johnâs Hull where his grandfather… |
| Cox, Ben |
Benjamin Norman Cox was born in Tunbridge Wells in 1947. He attended St Marks's C.E. School in Tunbridge Wells and the Judd School, Tonbridge.
Ben worked for the Civil Service for five years before… |
| Trautwein, Dieter |
b Holzhausen, bei Biedenkopf, Central Germany 1928. d. 2002. Ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran ch, for some years following the 2nd world war he was a director of its youth work. He pioneered… |
| Berry, Gillian Patricia |
b Guildford, Surrey 1957. St John Bosco Sch, Chertsey, and Guildford Tech Coll; Univ Coll of N Wales, Bangor (BMus 1979, studying under Wm Matthias) and Keele Univ (Graduate Diploma in Counselling,… |
| Lacey Carolyn |
b 1973 in South London. She attended a local comprehensive school and Sixth Form college before moving to study Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol. After graduating in 1995, she… |
| Duffield, George (junr) |
b Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA 1818, d Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA 1888. Born into a Presbyterian family, he graduated from Yale Univ and Union Theological Seminary prior to ordination in 1840. His… |
