Pinner Parish Church Choir

MARTIN SINGLETON - Director

PAUL GREALLY - Organ

PINNER PARISH CHURCH CHOIR

Anthems and solos to mark the 150th Anniversary of the death of Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer of much church music.

Anthems and solos will also include:

Paul Jeanes Psalm 121 (PMF-2026 commission); Pascoe Hymn to St John the Baptist; Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine;

John Whittaker: Come Let us Sing; Bussey And an old white horse (organ)

Pinner Parish Church Choir – around which Pinner Music Festival has grown – open our PMF concerts again this year. The Choir’s regular contributions to worship in Pinner and beyond, as well as in concerts, has fostered the musical talents and skills of numerous young people over very many years, initially guided by Michael Turvey (who also founded Pinner Music Festival), and in recent years by Martin Singleton.

We mark the 150th Anniversary of the death of Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–76), whose contributions to the development of English Church Music, during his many years at great cathedrals, were substantial – including anthems, hymns and organ works.

Paul Greally is the Assistant Organist at Westminster Abbey. In this role, he works alongside the Sub-Organist and Organ Scholar in playing for services in the Abbey, assisting with conducting the Abbey Choir, and with training the choristers. He studies with David Titterington at the Royal Academy of Music for the MA in Organ Performance, and is supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.

Following his organ scholarship at Pinner Parish Church, he became a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and read Music at King's College, Cambridge, where he was the organ scholar for four years. During this time he performed regularly on TV and live radio, including for Carols from King’s and A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, which were broadcast worldwide, and at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and Sydney Opera House. He graduated with a BA (starred double first) and an MPhil (distinction), gaining the highest marks in his cohort for both degrees. In his final year, he was the Musical Director for the King’s Men, the close-harmony group of King’s College Choir’s adult singers.

Prior to taking up his post at Westminster Abbey, he was the Musical Director of the King's Men, and the sole organ scholar at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with BA and MPhil degrees in Music.