Andrew Parnell

Andrew Parnell has conducted choirs and orchestras since his student days in Cambridge. For 25 years, he lived and worked in St Albans, as Assistant Master of the Music at the Cathedral (where he also founded the Abbey Girls Choir), as Choral Director at St Albans School and Conductor of the City’s Symphony Orchestra. Highlights during that time were Verdi’s Requiem with St Albans School and St Albans High School; Bach’s St Matthew Passion with St Albans Bach Choir; Britten’s War Requiem and Berlioz’s Te Deum with combined local societies