Music at the Chapel
Our Director of Music
Dr Stephen Taylor is the Sanders Director of Music at Harris Manchester College, a role which encompasses directing the Chapel choir, teaching singing, and organising concerts. He also holds teaching posts at Wadham and Brasenose, Eton and Radley Colleges and is the Director of Choral Music at Cothill House School, helping singers of all ages and abilities. He also teaches on the Rodolfus choral courses during the summer vacations. Stephen has enjoyed a career as a solo and ensemble singer with the likes of The Tallis Scholars, which has taken him to Australia, Japan, and Korea, as well as USA, Canada and much of Europe. He was a founder member of La Chapelle du Roi, which recorded the complete works of Thomas Tallis, including the solo lute songs for Signum Records. In Oxford, he sang as an alto lay clerk at Christ Church and latterly at New College for 33 years. He is a music graduate of Durham University and was a choral scholar in the cathedral choir.
