Andrew Bryden

Andrew Bryden was appointed Director of Music of Ripon Cathedral in November 2003 having previously been Assistant Organist and Director of Music at Ripon Cathedral Choir School since 1998. He read music at Aberdeen University as an organ scholar, specialising in performance and editorial techniques, and studied organ with Roger Bevan Williams, George McPhee, Timothy Byram-Wigfield and David Sanger. Following cathedral and church appointments in Aberdeen and Sheffield Andrew was appointed Organ Scholar of Canterbury Cathedral in 1994, and combined this with the post of Organist and Head of Academic Music at St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury. As an accompanist and recitalist he has played at many of the major venues in the United Kingdom,...