Richard Popplewell, Esq, LVO

Career: asst organist St Paul's Cathedral 1958-66, dir of music St Michael's Cornhill 1966-79, organist, choirmaster and composer HM Chapels Royal St James's Palace 1979-2000, prof of organ RCM 1962-2000; accompanist and asst conductor The Bach Choir 1966-79; soloist Proms 1965; special cmmr RSCM; memb: Assoc of Cathedral Organists, ISM, RSM; FRCM, FRCO; Compositions published choral works incl: There Is No Rose 1974, The National Anthem (dedicated by Gracious Permission to HM Queen Elizabeth II) 1984, Two Final Amens 1989, O How Amiable 1992, A Vast Cloud of Love 1996, I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes 1998, various anthems for royal baptisms; published organ works incl: Suite for Organ 1974, Puck's Shadow 1976, Variations on a New Year's Carol 1976, Easter Hymn 1977, Chants d'oiseaux, des poules, des moutons et des vaches 1977, Elegy 1980, Organ Concerto in D 1981, Prelude on Down Ampney 1982, Romance 1986, Triumphal March 1993, Te Deum in C (choir and orchestra) 2000, Six Pieces 2005, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D Flat 2005, A Feast of Fugues 2008, Organ Concerto in F