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Andrew Dean joined the Society as Conductor & Musical Director in January 2003.
Andrew’s musical life started at the age of seven on becoming a chorister at Westminster Cathedral. Here he had organ and piano lessons with Nicolas Kynaston, and by the time he was 12 he was regularly accompanying services in the Cathedral, gaining his first diploma at the age of 15. As a student at Edinburgh University he studied organ with Philip Sawyer and Peter Williams, also travelling to Haarlem for classes with Piet Kee.
Andrew has lived in Manchester since 1986 and has been Director of Music at both The Manchester Grammar School and Withington Girls’ School. He now teaches Academic Music and Organ at both Chetham’s School of Music and the Junior RNCM and is organ tutor for the Leek Churches Organ School. His work as organ recitalist and accompanist has, in recent times, taken him to many parts of Britain and Europe. He is also busy as an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.
Andrew is well known for his work with choirs, both amateur and professional, and his choral workshops regularly attract large numbers of participants. He is Visiting Choral Director at Leeds Metropolitan University, where a recent performance of Messiah with a workshop chorus, soloists from Opera North and the Black Dyke Band received widespread acclaim.
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