Harold Dexter

British organist and professor

Harold Dexter (7 October 1920 - 27 June 2000) was a British organist, Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Head of General Musicianship Department, 1962–85). He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Appointments

1946 -1949 Organist of St. James’ Church, Louth St James' Church, Louth
1949 - 1956 Organist of Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa
1956 - 1968 Organist of Southwark Cathedral

References

‘DEXTER, Harold’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 30 July 2011
http://www.organ-biography.info/index.php?id=Dexter_Harold_1920

Cultural offices
Preceded by Sidney Campbell	Organist and Master of the Choristers of Southwark Cathedral 1956–1968	Succeeded by Ernest Warrell

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