Chester Cathedral Nave Choir

Laurence Lyndon-Jones is a recent graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read mathematics and was Organ Scholar for four years. He started in cathedral music as a chorister at St. Albans Cathedral and began learning the organ there after leaving the choir. Laurence appeared with the choir in the film Johnny English, and also took park in tours to the USA, Sweden and Holland.

Whilst Organ Scholar at Pembroke, Laurence conducted the chapel choir on tours to Tallinn, Milan and Barcelona and at two evensongs at Westminster Abbey in London. He also organised and conducted a CD recording by the choir in 2008 called Locus Iste. He has played organ recitals at Pembroke, St. John’s, Harris Manchester and Exeter Colleges in Oxford, and at Chester and St. Albans Cathedrals. Laurence was the conductor of the Arcadian Singers of Oxford in 2010, and conducted a performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre.

Other musical interests include singing and playing the trombone, and he toured to Israel, Poland, Switzerland and Holland with Schola Cantorum of Oxford chamber choir and the Oxford University Big Band. He sang at a public masterclass with Emma Kirkby in Queen’s College Chapel, Oxford, and is an Associate of Trinity College London for recital performance on the Trombone.