John Rowlands-Pritchard worked as a professional singer in the cathedral choirs of Ely and of Wells.
He sang as an oratorio soloist; and founded the group Opus Anglicanum, 5 singers and a reader.
He studied mediaeval song with Professor John Stevens and early Gregorian chant with Dr. Mary Berry at Cambridge, illustrating lectures and broadcast talks for both. Experience as a Cantor with the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge included recital work and recording in many European cathedrals and abbeys, and in the Vatican.
He has directed Chant Days for university music departments, cathedral choirs, music festivals, adult education colleges, and is an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music for his work teaching the chant.
He has more recently worked for Glastonbury Abbey, Worcester Three Choirs Festival, Benslow Music, Sarum College, Two Moors Festival, with the Benedictine monks of Silverstream Priory, Co.Meath, Ireland, for Dorchester Arts, and Ledbury Poetry Festival. He prepared the Revised Edition of Mary Berry’s ‘Plainchant for Everyone’ (RSCM) for which he compiled a new Anthology of Chant.
