Andrew Lucas

Organist, born in Wellington, Shropshire, in 1958. From 1976, he studied at the Royal College of Music in London, where his teachers included John Birch for organ and Herbert Howells for composition. After graduating from London University (BMus) he continued his organ studies with Peter Hurford, and with Piet Kee in Amsterdam. He then worked for seventeen years at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, the last eight years as the Assistant Director of Music, until becoming Master of the Music of St Albans Cathedral and Music Director of St Albans Bach Choir in 1998. He has also been a freelance musician including continuo organ and harpsichord with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in the mid-1980s.