Music Director

Timothy Parsons

Timothy Parsons took up the position of Director of Music at Wells Cathedral in September 2024, also becoming Music Director of the Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society. He has held posts at the cathedrals of Hereford, Winchester, Exeter, and most recently St Edmundsbury, where he was Director of Music from 2021 to 2024. During his time there, the choir toured to France and Germany, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and released a recording, ‘A Year at St Edmundsbury’, with the Regent label.

Timothy was a chorister at Guildford Cathedral, a music scholar at Charterhouse, and was organ scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge, graduating with a starred first in Music in 2014. Whilst at Cambridge he was also organ scholar for King's Voices, the mixed-voice choir of King's College Chapel. In 2018 he recorded a disc of organ music at Exeter for Regent Records' English Cathedral Series, which was praised for its 'vigour, optimism and supreme self confidence' (MusicWeb International) and 'virtuoso command of the organ' (Organists' Review).