Tom Moore has replaced Jonathan Bielby - who retired last Easter - as the Cathedral's Director of Music. Mr Moore has been Assistant Director of Music since 2002. Currently a teacher at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, he also works as a freelance recitalist.

 

 

Wakefield Cathedral Choir is nationally and internationally acclaimed as one of the finest in England but paradoxically has also been described as ‘Wakefield’s best kept secret.’

 

The Cathedral Choir consists of twenty boys, twenty girls and ten lay clerks. The boys and girls come from Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield Girls’ High School, Silcoates School and local state schools. The lay clerks in some cases travel vast distances in their devotion to  the musical worship of the Cathedral.

 

Wakefield is one of the poorest cathedrals in the Church of England and so much of what the choir does is done on a shoe-string.