About William Saunders

William is currently Assistant Director of Music at Ipswich School and Deputy Organist at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. During his education at Thomas Mills School, Framlingham, Suffolk he won the Chamber Music Ensemble Class in the National Festival of Music for Youth. Following this he was awarded the Associateship diploma of the Royal College of Organists before moving to Sheffield to take up a place at Sheffield University where he graduated with first class honours in July 2003. During his time in Sheffield he was Organ Scholar at Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield University and St John’s Church, Ranmoor. He is an experienced recitalist and accompanist and has played at many distinguished venues in this country and abroad including the Cambridge Summer Music Festival and Oundle International Festival. In 2007 he recorded a CD of Romantic English organ music for Regent Records at St Mary’s Redcliffe, Bristol. In the May 2008 edition of Organists Review it was given Editor’s Choice – “William’s playing is quite astounding: musicality, flawless technique and mind-boggling organ management” He has recently released his second CD which was recorded on the renovated instrument of St Mary-le-Tower Church, Ipswich, where he was organist between 2004-2009. This year’s recitals include Bath Abbey, Tewkesbury Abbey, Westminster Abbey, Wells Cathedral and another tour to Northern Germany. William has also been an organ tutor on three Oundle for Organist courses.

Below is a list of venues William has performed at in recent years:
All Saints Northampton, Ampleforth Abbey, Arundel RC Cathedral, Birmingham Cathedral, Blackburn Cathedral,  Bremen, Brentwood RC Cathedral,  St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, Chelmsford Cathedral, Clare College, Cambridge, Coventry Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, Ely Cathedral, Fotheringhay PC, Hexham Abbey, Leeds Parish Church, Lichfield Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, Norwich Cathedral, Oakham Parish Church, Portsmouth Cathedral, Romsey Abbey, Royal Albert Hall, Ripon Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Sheffield Cathedral, St Edmundsbury Cathedral, St John’s Ranmoor PC, Sheffield, St Mary’s Bury St Edmunds, St Mary’s Redcliffe, Bristol, St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, St Margaret’s PC, Kings Lynn, St Michael’s Croydon, St Michael’s PC, Framlingham, St Peter’s PC, Sudbury, St Pauls’ Cathedral, London, Southwell Minster, St Michaelis Cathedral, Hamburg, Tewkesbury Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, York Minster.