Our Director
Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore is Director of Music at Llandaff Cathedral where he has oversight for all musical provision of a busy department which provides seven sung services a week. At Llandaff he directs the Cathedral Choirs in the weekly round of choral services, concerts, broadcasts and tours. Under his direction the choir has frequently appeared in broadcasts live on television and radio, most notably for a service in the presence of HM King Charles III and the Queen Consort in September 2022 which was broadcast worldwide. Stephen has also appeared on television as conductor or organist, most recently for Songs of Praise on both Easter Day 2021 and Christmas Day 2022.

Prior to moving to Cardiff in 2016, Stephen spent six years as Director of Music at St Matthew’s Church, Northampton where he continued the church’s famous tradition of commissioning new music that began with Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb over 75 years ago. Under his direction St Matthew’s choir gave the premieres of new works by Paul Mealor, David Halls and Philip Stopford. Stephen previously held appointments at various places, including Salisbury Cathedral and Southwell Minster, The Royal Hospital Chelsea and The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Stephen completed his undergraduate studies at Trinity College of Music, with organ as principal study, graduating in 2008 with a first-class honours degree in performance. He won the college medal for the highest keyboard studies mark in his year as well as the prize for conducting. Whilst at Trinity he studied with William Whitehead and Colm Carey and twice won the Cardnell Organ Prize for outstanding performance. He is a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and a Fellow of Trinity College London.

As a soloist he has given recitals in numerous venues throughout the country. Recent and upcoming venues include Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, Malvern Priory, Cardiff Museum, St John’s College Cambridge and Salem Minster, Germany as well as liturgical performances in Llandaff of Messiaen La Nativité du Seigneur, Hosking 14 Stations of the Cross and the Welsh premiere of Philip Moore’s Via Crucis. In 2018 Stephen released his debut CD with Priory Records recorded on the Cathedral Organ at Llandaff. He can be heard on numerous other CD recordings as soloist or accompanist and has regularly broadcast on radio and television.

As well as his work at the Cathedral, Stephen also conducts The Cardiff Bach Choir, a mixed voice choir of about 65 members from all walks of life who share a love of choral singing.