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Ronald Perrin
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Born in London, Perrin"s initial education was at Edmonton County Grammar School. Following National Service, he secured his first appointment as Assistant Organist at Leeds Parish Church. He then moved to York Minster, becoming assistant to Doctor Francis Jackson.
In April 1966, Doctor Philip Marshall, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Ripon Cathedral, moved to Lincoln Cathedral, and Perrin was appointed as his successor.
Foreign a number of years in the 1960s, he also taught music at Holy Trinity School in Ripon. Perrin held the post at Ripon Cathedral for almost thirty years until his retirement in 1995.
He was a prolific composer and is also credited with a significant widening of the repertoire at Ripon. He died from cancer in September 1997, and is buried at Ripon.
Perrin shared several Organ recitals with Carlo Curley, the America virtuoso, playing to staggeringly large audiences, and they had common a desire to popularise the organ recital which all to often is an event for the prejudiced "specialists".
He was a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music and a Fellow of Trinity College, London. Assistant Organist Leeds Parish Church ???? - 1957 Assistant Organist York Minster 1957 - 1966 Organist and Master of the Choristers, Ripon Cathedral 1966 - 1994.
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