Organ Scholar at Canterbury Cathedral

Stephanie Gaunt has been the Organ Scholar at Canterbury Cathedral since September 2025, having previously held organ scholarships at Chichester Cathedral and St John’s Church, West Byfleet. She graduated from the University of Surrey in Summer 2024 with a degree in Music and Sound Recording.

She won the Sowerbutts and Durrant Prize and the Samuel Baker prize for her marks in her ARCO organ diploma, and she also has an LTCL piano diploma and ATCL cello diploma. From September she will become the organ scholar of Southwell Minster.

In her spare time she enjoys tap dancing, knitting, and caring for her thirty pet stick insects.

Programme

JS Bach - Prelude in E minor, BWV 548
Felix Mendelssohn - Fugue in C minor, Op. 37
François Couperin - Offertoire sur les Grands jeux (from Messe pour les Paroisses)
Easthope Martin - Evensong
Petr Eben - The Dance of David Before the Ark of the Covenant (from Four Biblical Dances for Organ)
Charles Callahan - Prelude and Dance (a duet, played with Ian Church)
Norman Cocker - Tuba Tune