Jonathan Rees-Williams
{{Short description|British cathedral organist}}
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Jonathan Rees-Williams (born 10 February 1949) is a British cathedral organist, who served in Lichfield CathedralThe Succession of Organists. Watkins Shaw. and St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Background
He was born in St. Helier, Jersey. He studied music at the Royal Academy of Music.
In 2004, he was arrested and in court he admitted five counts of indecent assault involving two boys, but denied a further 10 counts against boys and three against a girl. He was jailed for five years for the indecent assaults and a further three months, to run consecutively, for possessing 127 indecent images of children on two computers.{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/3596894.stm|title=Queen's organist jailed for abuse|date=25 August 2004|accessdate=10 August 2020|website=News.bbc.co.uk}}
Career
- Organ scholar at New College, Oxford 1969 - 1972
- Acting organist at New College, Oxford 1972
Assistant organist:
Organist of:
- Lichfield Cathedral 1978 - 1991
- St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1991 - 2002
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{{s-bef|before=Richard Greening}}
{{s-ttl|title=Organist and Master of the Choristers of Lichfield Cathedral
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{{s-aft|after=Andrew Lumsden}}
{{s-bef|before=Christopher Robinson}}
{{s-ttl|title=Organist and Master of the Choristers of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
|years=1991-2002}}
{{s-aft|after=Timothy Byram-Wigfield}}
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Category:British people convicted of indecent assault
Category:British classical organists
Category:British cathedral organists
Category:People educated at Kilburn Grammar School
Category:People from Saint Helier
Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
Category:21st-century British organists