Barry Michael Rose
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HonFRCO (born 24 May 1934) is a
choir trainer and
organist
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. He is best known for founding the choir and the pattern of daily sung worship at the new
Guildford Cathedral
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in 1961, as well as directing the music at the 1981 wedding of
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and
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at
St Paul's Cathedral
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in London.
Biography
Early life
Born in the borough of
Chingford
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, Essex,
England
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, Rose grew up playing hymns on the piano at his local Sunday school, and later accompanying the choir on the harmonium at the mission church of St Anne's in
Chingford Hatch
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. Upon leaving the
Sir George Monoux Grammar School
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,
Walthamstow
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, at the age of 16, Rose worked in the insurance departments of
W. H. Smith & Son and
Joseph Rank Ltd.
Career
In 1956, he joined
Martindale Sidwell
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Education
John William Martindale Sidwell was born in Little Packington, Warwickshire on 23 February 1916, the son of John ...
's choir at
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Parish Church as a
bass, and eighteen months later became organist and choirmaster at St Andrew's Church,
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. While at Kingsbury,
Sir Thomas Armstrong
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offered Rose a place at the
Royal Academy of Music
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to study organ with
C. H. Trevor.
In April 1960, whilst still a 25-year-old unqualified academy student, Rose became the youngest cathedral organist in the country when he was appointed as the first Organist & Master of the Choristers at the new
Guildford Cathedral
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.
[Barry Rose (Choral Conductor, Organ)]
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At Guildford he founded a choir to sing the daily services, their first public appearance being the service of consecration on 17 May 1961 in the presence of
Queen Elizabeth II
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, and
Duke of Edinburgh
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. The choir made several recordings in the cathedral for
EMI Records
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, of which some were awarded
platinum, gold, and silver status.
In 1971, Rose succeeded
George Thalben-Ball as Religious Music Adviser to the
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's Head of Religious Broadcasting, a post he was to hold until 1990. In 1974, he had been invited to move to St Paul's Cathedral, London, initially as sub-organist, and in 1977 was appointed to the specially created post of Master of the Choir. He took over those duties at the
.
. His last cathedral post was in 1988, as Master of the Music at the
, from which he retired on Christmas Day 1997. During his tenure there, the choir recorded and broadcast regularly and toured the USA five times in the space of nine years.
In 1997, with his spouse and three osspring, Rose moved to the village of Draycott in Somerset, from where he has continued his musical work, mainly with choirs in the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. He also finds time to indulge his passion in collecting and restoring vintage fountain pens.
In the
his memoirs, entitled ''Sitting on a Pin''.