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JONATHAN RENNERT, the
conductor of LMMC for the past fifteen years, is a
specialist in English music. Based in the City of London, where he is
Director of Music of two Wren churches (St Michael's Cornhill and St
Mary-at-Hill), he has been featured on discs (as conductor, solo organist or
continuo player), radio and television, and in numerous concerts and
recitals on four continents. He is the author of two books on English
musicians (William Crotch, the eighteenth-century prodigy and composer, and
George Thalben-Ball, the virtuoso organist) and many articles, including
entries in the New Grove. He also directs (from the chamber organ) regular
performances of Bach cantatas with the St Mary-at-Hill Baroque Chamber
Orchestra and Soloists.
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He studied as a
foundation scholar at the Royal College of Music, organ
scholar of St John's College Cambridge, and Stewart of Rannoch Scholar in
Sacred Music in Cambridge University. He is a senior moderating and
training examiner of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
His conducting style at LMMC meetings is relaxed, encouraging, knowledgeable
and friendly.
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