John Gavin Scott

SCOTT, John Gavin. b. 18 June 1956; d. 12 August 2015. He was a chorister at Wakefield Cathedral, educated at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Wakefield, and St John’s College, Cambridge. He went back to Wakefield Cathedral as Assistant Organist (1970-74), followed by another return as Organ Scholar of St John’s College, Cambridge (1974-78). He was then Assistant Organist at Southwark Cathedral (1978-85); from 1985 to 2004 he was involved with the music of St Paul’s Cathedral as Assistant Sub-Organist, Sub-Organist and finally (from 1990), Organist and Director of Music. In 2004 he left to become Organist and Director of Music at St Thomas’s Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, where he has...