Our Conductor – Andrew Wyatt

Andrew Wyatt is Assistant Director of Music at Truro Cathedral and is also the Musical Director of the St Mary’s Singers. As part of the thriving musical team at Truro, Andrew plays a key role in providing choral and musical development and mentorship to all choristers on a daily basis. Alongside this, the cathedral organ recital series and the rich routine of weekly services, Andrew is delighted to be in charge of a pioneering outreach programme that incorporates a number of local primary schools, sharing his passion for choral singing.

Educated at Aldenham School, he studied the organ with Andrew Parnell and gained an Entrance Scholarship to Birmingham Conservatoire where he studied under David Saint and Henry Fairs. Since then, Andrew has been awarded an Honorary Membership of Birmingham Conservatoire, in recognition of his accomplishments in church and cathedral music. Alongside his four-year course, Andrew held the organ scholarship at St Philip’s Cathedral in Birmingham. After holding the organ scholarship at Canterbury Cathedral and being awarded associateship of the Royal College of Organists, Andrew became Assistant Organist at Hexham Abbey in September 2012. Appointed as Assistant Organist and later, Assistant Director of Music, at Chester Cathedral in 2016, Andrew enjoyed working with Philip Rushforth. Here he performed on a number of BBC broadcasts, as well as a critically acclaimed CD of “Choral Classics”.