Noël Tredinnick DMus GGSM PGCE

As a conductor of orchestras and choirs, Noël is in demand worldwide. In addition to working in all the major concert venues in the UK, he has conducted at the Sydney Opera House, the Conservatorium of Music in Moscow, the Sky Dome Stadium in Toronto, the Kravis Center in Palm Beach, St Michael’s Cathedral in Brussels, the Festival Hall in Varna, the City Hall in New York and beside the Sea of Galilee in the Holyland.

Through his involvement with the BBC’s Songs of Praise, millions are aware of his work. Locations have been as varied as the No. 1 Court at Wimbledon tennis, Wormwood Scrubs prison, under the Blackpool Tower, by the Atlantic Ocean in Florida, on the Thames on HMS Belfast, inaugurating the new Channel Tunnel, as well as celebrating the Olympic Games in Atlanta and Sydney.

In over thirty years of conducting, Noël has had the privilege and pleasure to work with a variety of artists and entertainers, including Patti Boulaye, Roy Castle, Wendy Craig, Lesley Garrett, Amy Grant, Gloria Gaynor, Ben Heppner, Paul Jones, Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, Paul Tortelier, Harry Secombe, David Suchet and, of course, Sir Cliff Richard.

Since 1972 he has been Organist and Director of Music at All Souls, Langham Place. Three years later he began working as a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and still teaches conducting, orchestration and music awareness.

In 1987 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Langham Arts Trust to develop the expanding ministry of the All Souls musicians in concerts, publications and recordings. His work with the All Souls Orchestra and Prom Praise has been a major influence and pleasure to audiences and conductor alike.

He has contributed compositions and arrangements to many Christian hymnals and songbooks and, as Vice-Chairman of Jubilate Hymns, he has influenced a generation of developments in contemporary church music and in the adoption of instruments in worship. For this he was awarded a Lambeth Doctorate of Music by Archbishop George Carey. Noël has also directed music for Billy Graham in Toronto and Ottawa, and for HM the Queen at St James’s Palace, Balmoral and for the Golden Jubilee celebrations.

He established a love of church music, the Bible, and the theatre when, in the 1960s, he was a boy-chorister at Southwark Cathedral (a Hammerstein Chanter).

In March 2002, Noël was awarded an Lambeth/Oxford Doctor of Music degree.

For relaxation he still enjoys the theatre, architecture, overseas travel and country walking. Noël met his wife Fiona at St Paul’s Beckenham in Kent. Their daughter Isabel is at University in Nottingham and son James is at school in Dulwich, South London.