Andrew Gant

Andrew Gant is a composer, singer, author, teacher and politician. He was organist, choirmaster and composer at Her Majesty's Chapel Royal from 2000 to 2013.

Gant attended Radley College before going on to read Music and English at St John's College, Cambridge. He was a choral scholar and sang in the College Choir under George Guest. He subsequently studied composition with Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music and completed his PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, and held the same position at St Edmund Hall until 2014.

He is an experienced singer, having sung with most of the United Kingdom's leading choirs and vocal ensembles including The Sixteen, the Monteverdi Choir and the Cambridge Singers and the Tallis Scholars. He has held posts as a church musician at Westminster Abbey, Selwyn College, Cambridge, The Royal Military Chapel (the Guards' Chapel), and Worcester College, Oxford. In September 2000 he was appointed Organist, Choirmaster and Composer at Her Majesty's Chapels Royal. He has led the Chapel Royal choir at, among many other events, the funeral of H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the Golden Jubilee service in St Paul's Cathedral in 2002, the 10th anniversary service for the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the wedding of H.R.H. Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011, the annual Remembrance Day parade at the Cenotaph and the annual Royal Maundy service. During the Summer of 2002 he was featured in a BBC Radio 4 documentary.

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