Name Jonathan Vaughn Role Organist | Albums Wagner at the Organ | |
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Similar People Matthew Owens, Christopher Robinson, Philip Moore, Choir of St John's College, William Mathias | ||
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Jonathan Vaughn (b.1981) has been Assistant Organist of Wells Cathedral since September 2007. He has also held musical posts at St George's Chapel, Windsor and St Edmundsbury Cathedral
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Early life and education
Whilst still at school, Vaughn was organ scholar of Croydon Parish Church; during this time, aged sixteen, he became a prizewinning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. His gap year was spent as the organ scholar of St George's Chapel, Windsor, before he started as an organ scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, where he read for a degree in music. He stayed on at St John's, for another year, as Assistant Organist. He studied the organ with Dame Gillian Weir whilst at Cambridge.
St Edmundsbury
In September 2004, Vaughn was appointed Assistant Director of Music of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, after Michael Bawtree left to study choral conducting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He also was the Cathedral's Arts Co-ordinator and Musical Director of the Phoenix Singers, Framlingham. After three years, he was appointed Assistant Organist of Wells Cathedral.
Wells
For the past seven years, Vaughn has been Assistant Organist of Wells Cathedral. He has recorded five CDs with the cathedral choir and one with The Exon Singers - all under the direction of Matthew Owens.