Sarah Baldock
Music Director
Sarah Baldock took up the post of Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral in
April 2008. She was previously Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral where she
accompanied the Choir in daily services, tours, broadcasts and recordings. She founded the
Winchester Cathedral Girls’ Choir in 1998, and was its Director until 2008. During this period the
choir toured Sweden, Italy and Denmark, made a CD for the Griffin label entitled Immortal Fire,
and gave concerts in the UK including two Christmas performances at Birmingham Symphony
Hall. Several former Girl Choristers have won choral scholarships to Cambridge and other
universities.
During her time in Winchester she was accompanist to the Waynflete Singers and Organ
Performance Tutor at Southampton University. She has been a faculty member of the Calgary,
Edinburgh and Oundle Organ Courses, and involved in education projects at the Royal Festival Hall
and Birmingham Symphony Hall. She is a Trustee Council member of the Royal College of
Organists.
Educated as a music scholar at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London, and as Organ Scholar of
Pembroke College, Cambridge, she won prizes in the RCO diploma examinations and a bursary for
postgraduate study with David Sanger and Thomas Trotter.
Finalist in the 1998 Calgary International, and prizewinner at the 2000 Odense and 2002 Dallas
International Organ Competitions, Sarah Baldock enjoys an active career as an organ soloist in the
UK and abroad. Performances have included concertos with the City of Birmingham Symphony,
Dallas Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and Hampshire Youth Orchestras
and solo concerts in Europe, USA and Canada. In 1998 she released a CD on the Marcussen organ
in Tonbridge School Chapel for Herald, and two other recording projects are underway.
Sarah Baldock has directed choral workshops in the UK, USA, Norway and Sweden. She lives in
Chichester Cathedral Close with her husband, David Hurley.