La Nativite Du Seigneur by Olivier Messiaen performed by Benjamin Chewter

Educated at Christ's Hospital School in his native Sussex, he held the Organ Scholarship at Canterbury Cathedral before going up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge as Organ Scholar (where he read Music and was Organist of King’s Voices, the mixed-voice choir of King’s College Chapel). He subsequently held posts at Westminster Abbey, Lincoln Cathedral and Chester Cathedral and is now Organist of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London.

As an organist and conductor he has performed extensively throughout the UK and abroad, particularly in Germany. He has also appeared frequently as an organist for live broadcasts of the Daily Service on BBC Radio 4 and Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3. Contemporary music has a strong place in his repertoire, and he has premiered new music by

Howard Skempton, Philip Moore, Ciprian Ilie, Francis Pott and Matthew Martin.

Benjamin studied organ repertoire with Dame Gillian Weir and Stephen Farr and organ improvisation with David Briggs. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and also holds the College's Choral Conducting Diploma.