Sarah Baldock is an English organist and choral conductor, formerly the Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral.
Education
Baldock was educated as a music scholar at Street Paul"s Girls" School in London and then as organ scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge, winning prizes in the RCO diploma examinations and a bursary for postgraduate study with David Sanger and Thomas Trotter.
Career
Baldock has become known as a popular soloist in the United Kingdom and abroad. She was a finalist in the 1998 Calgary International, and prizewinner at the 2000 Odense and 2002 Dallas International Organ Competitions. Sarah has directed choral workshops in the United Kingdom, United States, Norway and Sweden.
Performances have included concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra and solo concerts in the Channel Islands, Europe, United States and Canada.
Tonbridge School
Baldock was Organist in Residence at Tonbridge School in Kent and in 1998 she released a solo Civil Defense on the Marcussen organ in Tonbridge School Chapel for Herald. Winchester
In 1998 Sarah moved to Winchester Cathedral where she founded the Girls" Choir and in 2002 became Assistant Director of Music, accompanying the Choir in daily services, tours, broadcasts and recordings.
During her time in Winchester she was accompanist to the Waynflete Singers and Organ Performance Tutor at the University of Southampton. Chichester
In December 2007, Baldock was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral on the retirement of Alan Thurlow.
Following her resignation from the Cathedral in 2014, Charles Harrison, Assistant Director of Music at Lincoln Cathedral was appointed to succeed her.
Cheltenham Ladies" College
In March 2014, it was announced that Baldock had been appointed a music teacher at Cheltenham Ladies" College. She started at the school in September 2014.
Membership
Baldock has been a faculty member of the Calgary, Edinburgh and Oundle Organ Courses, and involved in education projects at the Royal Festival Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall.