THOMAS WILSON

President and Master of Chapel Music

Former Director of Music at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney

Thomas Wilson is the Founding President and Master of Chapel Music for the School of Sacred Music. From 2010 to 2023 Thomas Wilson was Director of Music at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, where he established a regular schedule of daily choral liturgical services, and oversaw the development of the busiest and most comprehensive Cathedral Music program in Australia. Thomas conducted the Cathedral Choir in concerts and festivals throughout Australia, Belgium, and Italy, broadcast on Channel 7, ABC television and radio, recorded several CDs, and collaborated with some of Australia’s finest orchestras, choirs, and solo artists.

In 2003 Thomas moved from his native New Zealand to the UK to study organ at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was appointed Organist and Assistant Director to the Choir of Ealing Abbey before becoming Assistant Organist at Westminster Cathedral, where the famed Cathedral Choir sings daily Vespers and Mass. Thomas subsequently became Westminster Cathedral’s first lay Precentor, with responsibility for planning and coordinating the Cathedral’s Liturgy, in addition to his duties as Assistant Organist.