Lunchtime Concert: William Fox, organ

William Fox is the Director of Music at St Albans Cathedral, where he directs the Cathedral Choirs and oversees all aspects of the Cathedral’s musical life. He is also Musical Director of the St Albans Bach Choir.

Previously, until August 2024, William spent six years working at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, first as Sub Organist and latterly as Assistant Director of Music. While at St Paul’s, William played the organ at the National Service of Thanksgiving for the Platinum Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II and at the National Service of Prayer and Reflection the day following her death, as well as at other major services of national significance. 

William began his musical education as a chorister at York Minster, before holding organ scholarships at Wells and Hereford Cathedrals. William became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists as a teenager, winning the Turpin and Durrant prize. He was then organ scholar and a prizewinning academic scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, from where he graduated with a first-class degree in Music. 

William teaches at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and gives recitals throughout the UK. In 2021 and 2022 he performed the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in a series of 30 recitals at St Paul’s. His recording of the organ works of Cecilia McDowall was released in 2021, gaining 5 * reviews in Choir and Organ and The Organ. As a continuo and orchestral organist William has recently appeared with the Gabrieli Consort and Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the City of London Sinfonia and the Cardinall’s Musick.