Jonathan Rees-Williams
Jonathan Rees-Williams (born 1949) is a British cathedral organist, who served in Lichfield Cathedral[1] and St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Background
He was born in St. Helier, Jersey on 10 February 1949. He studied music at the Royal Academy of Music.
In 2004, he was arrested and in court he admitted five counts of indecent assault involving two boys, but denied a further 10 counts against boys and three against a girl. He was jailed for five years for the indecent assaults and a further three months, to run consecutively, for possessing 127 indecent images of children on two computers. [2]
Career
Organ scholar at New College, Oxford 1969 - 1972
Acting organist at New College, Oxford 1972
Assistant organist:
Organist of:
- Lichfield Cathedral 1978 - 1991
- St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1991 - 2002
References
- ^ The Succession of Organists. Watkins Shaw.
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/3596894.stm
Categories:
- Organists
- British people convicted of indecent assault
- British organists
- British classical organists
- Male organists
- Cathedral organists
- 1949 births
- People educated at Kilburn Grammar School
- People from Saint Helier
- Living people
- Alumni of New College, Oxford
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
- 21st-century organists
- 21st-century British male musicians