Kenneth Beard
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Kenneth Bernard Beard FRCO(CHM) (9 June 1927, in Royton, Lancashire – 9 July 2010{{Cite web |url=http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=kenneth-bernard-beard&pid=144058862 |title=Kenneth Bernard BEARD Obituary: View Kenneth BEARD's Obituary by the Times |access-date=21 July 2010 |archive-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708111519/http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=kenneth-bernard-beard&pid=144058862 |url-status=dead }}) was an English Cathedral Organist.
Education
He attended Kingswood School, Bath,The succession of organists of the Chapel Royal and the cathedrals of England and Wales from c. 1538, Watkins Shaw, Clarendon Press, 1991 and studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music from 1946 to 1949.http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=97636 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}
After Manchester, he was organ scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
He was also made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1949, and gained a Choirmaster diploma in 1954.
Career
He was:
- Organist of St. Michael's College, Tenbury 1952–1959St. Michael’s College Society Magazine, September 2008.
- Rector Chori of Southwell Minster 1959–1988
- Organist of St Mary's Church, Mold
During his time in Tenbury, he commissioned the anthem “Antiphon” from Benjamin Britten and conducted the first performance on 29 September 1956 in the presence of the composer.Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976. Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke, Donald Mitchell, Boydell Press, 2008
At Southwell he was not only the organist of the Minster, but also head of Music of Southwell Minster School.
He was awarded the Cross of St Augustine by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 2008 in recognition of his service to church music.{{cite web |url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1913 |title=The Archbishop of Canterbury - Archbishop to award Cross of St Augustine |accessdate=2010-07-23 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028042742/http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1913 |archivedate=2010-10-28 }}
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Category:People educated at Kingswood School, Bath
Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester
Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge