Lindsay Gray has wide experience in education, in church music, and in inspiring young people. He has sung in some of the great choirs of Britain, and directed choirs in parish, school and cathedral settings. Brought up in Nottinghamshire, he gained the ARCO (Associate of the Royal College of Organists) organ-playing diploma before he left school, subsequently winning a choral scholarship to King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, under the direction of Sir David Willcocks and Sir Philip Ledger.
Mark Williams, Chairman of the RSCM Council, said, "The Council is enormously pleased to be able to appoint a person of such wide experience and high achievement.
"Lindsay Gray impressed the selection panel with the combination of skills he can bring to the role. We have every confidence that he will be able to build on the important work by John Harper over the last decade."
Gray continued his studies at Durham University, where he sang in the cathedral choir and directed a parish church choir. He was Director of Music at Queen’s College, Taunton, where he also directed the Somerset Youth Choir, and at Cheltenham College, before moving into educational leadership and management.
"I have a very strong desire to devote my life to securing and nurturing the future of church music and inspiring those involved to achieve excellence," said Lindsay Gray. "I care deeply about the continuing choral tradition and I firmly believe in encouraging different types of music in a variety of different worship settings.
