Ben Byram-Wigfield has a special interest in researching and editing English 16th and 18th century sacred music. He was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, a Lay-Clerk of Gloucester Cathedral and now sings as a tenor. His article detailing the research into his edition of the original version of the Allegri Miserere was published in the UK Musical Times in August 1997.
He produces editions of sacred choral music, and has edited a number of sixteenth century books, poems and plays. He works in a variety of fields within illustrated publishing. Click here for more details.
Becca Byram-Wigfield is a rhythm and blues vocalist, composer, arranger, and keyboard instrumentalist. She owns and hires a large collection of rare analogue keyboards which include: 2 Hammond B3's, Mellotron, Moog, Arp, Prophet, Oberheim, E.D.P.and Korg synthesizers, Wurlitzers, Fender Rhodes and F.R. piano bass, satellites and Contempo combo organ, D6 Clavinets, Gibson Kalamazoo, and many other oddities. Information and technical help can be given.
After working in Los Angeles and New York, she has moved to Massachusetts, commuting to New York when needed. She has co-written extensively and a recent song of Becca's is 'Only when I Dance' (co-written with David Bearwald) and performed by Becca on soundtrack of the movie The Heartbreakers (Sigourney Weaver, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Love-Hewitt).
Becca continues to play analog keyboards and enlarge her collection of weird sounds . . . to write and co-write, and with her husband, Pierre de Beauport, raise a daughter, Ella-Louise, and a son, baby Pierre junior.
Hear her on Becca's Smoke and Candy Store Amos Records, CD 4266-2
Timothy Byram-Wigfield is the Director of Music of the Choristers at St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
He is a former chorister of King's College, Cambridge; Organ Scholar of Christ Church, Oxford; Sub-Organist of Winchester Cathedral; Master of the Music at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, and until December 2003, was the first Director of College Music at Jesus College, Cambridge.
He appears as an organ recitalist in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, where he inaugurated the new organ in St Barnabas, Brooklyn; He has broadcast frequently on Radio 3; featured on the American organ show 'Pipedreams'; and recorded on the EMI, Hyperion, Argo, Priory, and Herald labels.
His recitals have included a series of all Bach's organ works, and his wide-ranging programmes incorporate organ transcriptions of many orchestral works.
His recent recording of the superb Edwardian organ in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow includes the overtures to Hansel &Gretel, The Magic Flute, Der Freischutz, and the 1812 Overture of Tchaikovsky
Current projects for the Delphian label include Messiaen's Les Corps Glorieux and a progamme of the organ music of Alfred Hollins.
The Kelvingrove Organ Delphian Records CD 34004
Other recordings include:
Antiphonies on the organ of Winchester Cathedral. Priory Records PRCD 329
The Organ of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh Herald Records HAVPCD 169
Twelve Organs of Edinburgh Priory Records PR CD 700 AB
This record has been nominated for Critic's Choice by the Gramophone Magazine
Morwenna Byram-Wigfield studied at the Royal College of Music and was the performance pianist for the Park Lane Opera Company and the harpsichordist with the Orpheus Trio. She worked as both a singer and an accompanist with touring opera companies and the National Theatre of Wales, and as an operatic and choral conductor.
She is a former organist of Ludlow Parish Church; conductor of the Ludlow Choral Society; co-founder of Opera in the Marches and the Leominster Children's Choir. Her singing students have achieved the 'hat-trick' of an Oxbridge choral scholarship for three years running, as well as successful auditions for the National Youth Choir and the City of Birmingham Youth Choir.
She adjudicates, writes and lectures on the interpretation of operatic roles, and her presentations of The Jenny Lind Story, A Spanish Serenade and The Songs of Shakespeare have been enthusiastically received at various venues.
David Byram-Wigfield was a chorister in Durham Cathedral, served his National Service in the Durham Light Infantry, and read History and English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
He produced Peter Tranchell's The Mayor of Casterbridge for the Cambridge University Opera Group, and Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla for the Oxford University Opera Group
He was a member of the technical staff at Glyndebourne Opera House and was producer for the London Opera Players and Opera in the Marches.
For eighteen years, he and Morwenna kept Ryeland sheep and Jersey cows on a Herefordshire smallholding, whilst single-handedly rebuilding a derelict Tudor farmhouse.
At the same time, he spent far too many years holding damp students over the hot flames of Eng. Lit. but was eventually seduced by Information Technology; cut his computing teeth on a BBC B and was digitally weaned on a MacPlus. He is now a Book on Demand publisher and freelance typographical journalist.
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