John Barnard (born 1948) is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO), an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music (ARSCM) and an active developer of church music as a composer, arranger, choir director and organist in North West London, England. He is on the Council of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland and has been active in helping to assemble such publications as Hymns for Today's Church, Carols for Today and Psalms fo...
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John Barnard (born 1948) is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO), an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music (ARSCM) and an active developer of church music as a composer, arranger, choir director and organist in North West London, England. He is on the Council of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland and has been active in helping to assemble such publications as Hymns for Today's Church, Carols for Today and Psalms for Today. He has been Director of Music at a series of high profile churches, which include Emmanuel Church (Northwood), St. Alban's Church (North Harrow), John Keble Church (Mill Hill) and since 2008 St. John the Evangelist Church (Stanmore).
Barnard was educated at the John Lyon School, Harrow between 1959 and 1966 where he excelled as a pupil and later went on to study Modern Languages at Selwyn College, Cambridge.
He was and remains very fond of the John Lyon School and was offered a teaching job there shortly after leaving Cambridge. He...
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