Mark Williams (organist)

Mark Turner Williams is a choral conductor and organist. He was Assistant Organist at St Paul's Cathedral from 2000 to 2006. Since 2009 he has held the position of Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge. In May 2016 he was appointed Informator Choristarum, Organist and Tutorial Fellow in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, a position he will take up in 2017.^[1]

Williams was organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2000, under Richard Marlow.^[2] After graduating from Trinity College he became Assistant Organist at St Paul's Cathedral, and Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral School. At 21 he was the youngest person ever to be appointed to these positions.^[3] In 2009 he succeeded Daniel Hyde as Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge.^[4] His other conducting roles include Principal Guest Conductor of the City of London Choir, and Artistic Director of the International William Byrd Festival.^[5][6]

He has also been involved with a number of charities. He has been a trustee of the Friends of Cathedral Music, and serves on the boards of Cambridge Early Music,^[7] the Oundle Music Trust,^[8] and the Harlton Organ Trust, and is a founding trustee of The Muze Trust, which supports music making in Zambia,^[9] and Songbound, a charity which sets up and supports choirs for under-privileged children in India.^[4][10] In 2013 he organised a tour of India by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, which included a week working with Songbound in the slums of Mumbai.^[11]

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• Magdalen College, Oxford
• St Paul's Cathedral
• The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge
• The Muze Trust
• Songbound