Barry Rose

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Barry Michael Rose (born 24 May 1934) is a renowned choir trainer and organist. He is best remembered for conducting the choir of St Paul's Cathedral at the wedding of Lady Diana Frances Spencer and HRH The Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) at St Paul's Cathedral in London on Wednesday 29 July 1981.

Born in Chingford, England, Barry Rose grew up accompanying the choir of his local church. After a spell as organist at St. Andrew's, Kingsbury, at the age of 25 he became the youngest cathedral organist in the country when he was appointed to the position of Master of Music at Guildford Cathedral. He moved to St Paul's Cathedral in 1974 as Sub-organist and was appointed Master of the Choir in 1977. He left St Paul's in 1984 after a difference of opinion with senior members of the clergy, and became Master of the Choirs at the King's School, Canterbury. From 1971 to 1986 he was Religious Music Adviser to the BBC, a job that included booking the choirs for the weekly 'Choral Evensong' broadcasts. His last post was that of Organist & Master of the Choristers at St Albans Cathedral, from which he retired on Christmas Day, 1997. In the Queen’s Birthday Honours List announced on 13 June 1998 he was awarded an OBE for his services to cathedral music.