Matthew Steynor

Matthew Steynor, Director of Music

Matthew Steynor, a native of Britain, has been Director of Music at Trinity Cathedral since Fall 2007. As Director of Music he directs and accompanies the Cathedral Choir, as well the Anglican Chorale of Southeast Florida, which he co-founded in Fall 2008. A frequent solo recitalist, Mr Steynor recently played the seven movements of Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets with no assistance.

He is a graduate of Cambridge University (U.K.), where he earned a Master of Arts degree and a Postgraduate Certificate of Education. He was an organ scholar at Queens’ College, where he was jointly responsible for the music in the college chapel for three years. Four recordings were made during this tenure, which received outstanding reviews in highly respected music journals and are available on iTunes.

A Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Matthew Steynor is one of only a handful of organists achieving this standard to reside in the United States. He arrived in the state in 2004 from Nassau, Bahamas, where had he served as Assistant Organist and Director of the Men and Boys Choir at Christ Church Cathedral. Upon moving to Florida, Mr Steynor became the organist at St. Thomas Episcopal Parish in Coral Gables, where he accompanied the busy parish choir in all musical activities, including two international tours.

In addition to his duties at the Cathedral, he is the accompanist for two of the area’s most prominent choral ensembles: the Master Chorale of South Florida and Florida’s Singing Sons Boychoir. With these organisations he has recently performed at St John the Divine Cathedral in New York and Washington National Cathedral, as well as the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Mr Steynor has been heard on the nationally syndicated Minnesota Public Radio show Pipedreams, and in 2008 was one of fifty choirmasters selected to participate in BBC Music Magazine’s worldwide “Fifty Greatest Carols” survey.