Benjamin Saunders was organ scholar of Downing College, Cambridge and sub-organist at the cathedrals of St Giles’ Edinburgh and Blackburn before becoming Assistant Director of Music at Chester Cathedral in 1998. Since 2002 he has been Director of Music for the Diocese of Leeds, carrying overall responsibility for the choral programme. Benjamin has been engaged by many external organisations as a consultant in the resourcing, management and development of cathedral music departments. As an organist, he has performed to HM the Queen, Princess Anne and US President Carter and worked with conductor Carl Davis and jazz virtuoso Dick Hyman. He has given solo organ concerts in France, Italy, Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Russia and the United States. Further details of these can be found on his website.

Christopher McElroy is the Assistant Director of Music for the Diocese and Director of the Schools Singing Programme.  He read music at Huddersfield and Liverpool Universities and was organ scholar at Wakefield and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedrals. Prior to taking up his present position here in West Yorkshire, Chris spent four years living, working and studying on the east coast of the USA. As an organist and conductor Christopher broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio, he appears on several CD's and has performed recitals and concerts at venues in the UK, Europe and the USA. His choirs have won medals and awards in several competitions, including the World Choir Games (Graz, Austria 2008) and the National Festival of Music for Youth (Birmingham, 2009.) In his spare time Chris is pursuing a PhD in theology.

Christopher Johns was head chorister at Derby Cathedral and choral scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, before taking up the position of Assistant Choirmaster at Osnabrück Cathedral. He studied Church Music in Düsseldorf and Linguistics to PhD level at Durham University, where he was Cathedral Organ Scholar and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra. As an organist, Chris plays for many of the cathedral liturgies and has accompanied diocesan choirs at national and international events, including on radio and television broadcasts. In January 2010, he won all the top prizes in the examinations for Royal College of Organists' Associateship diploma (ARCO). He remains active as an orchestral conductor (currently of Tees Valley Youth Orchestra) and is Deputy Chorus Master of Leeds Philharmonic Society and enjoys occasional engagements as a baritone soloist when time permits. He will leave the Diocese of Leeds at Christmas to take up the post of Director of Music at Leicester Cathedral.

Keith Roberts was born in Kent and was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral and a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge.  His musical experience since has been diverse. He sings countertenor, and has been a member of many of London's top choirs, as well as being an experienced consort and solo singer.  Keith has been musical director of the Allegri Singers and the Stondon Singers, as well as a jazz choir and close harmony groups.  He is in demand as a composer and arranger, and has found his music performed at the Three Choirs Festival, Westminster Abbey, on BBC Radio 3 and several countries abroad.  He is also an experienced singing teacher, having recently taught the choristers at Southwell Minster and the Temple Church.

Lucy Haigh attended Oxford High School, where she formed her first choir at the age of sixteen. After reading music, including Vocal Performance, at Durham University she returned to Oxford to found the Hildegard Choir (for girls) in 1991. The Choir reached the semi-finals of the BBC Choir of the Year competition and in 2004 were crowned champions at the International Choir Festival of Jersey. During her years in Oxford, Lucy also established and directed the Palestrina Boys' Choir. She relocated to Perth, Western Australia in January 2006 to take up the post of Head of Choral Music at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls. Whilst in Australia, Lucy founded the St Cecilia Girls' Choir and The Dragon Singers (boys' choir) for musical children of primary age.

Sally Egan was born in Leeds and educated at Notre Dame High School.  She read music at Cambridge University and studied singing in Paris with Maria-Grazia Dilluvio and in London with Lillian Watson.  She has sung opera and oratorio all over the world under the baton of many leading conductors including Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, William Christie and Pierre Boulez.  Sally also specialises in training treble voices.  Prior to her appointment in Leeds, she worked as a vocal coach with the choristers of Westminster Cathedral and taught singing to the choristers of Westminster Abbey.

Thomas Leech combines his work at Leeds Cathedral with the musical directorships of Bradford Festival Choral Society and Sheffield Chorale and growing acclaim as a recitalist. Prior to spending four years as Assistant Director of Music at Ripon Cathedral, he held organ scholarships at Downing College, Cambridge, and Norwich Cathedral. Tom's playing has been broadcast on BBC1, Radio 3 and Classic FM and is featured on a number of recordings. His debut solo disc, with Regent Records, is released later this year. Details of solo recitals can be viewed here. He is the visiting organ teacher at the Grammar School at Leeds and is honoured to be President of Leeds Organists' Association.

Julie Tanner graduated from Leeds University in Music and English, later gaining a Master's degree at Hull University. She is a Fellow of the Trinity College of Music, London and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists. She has been a member of the Cathedral music staff since 1990 and combines this with her full-time position as Head Teacher at Wakefield Tutorial Preparatory School.

Claudine Tat was born and educated in Paris before moving to England. She is married with three children. Claudine worked as a PA to the Senior Partner of a firm of Management Consultants whilst in Leeds before moving to various parts of the country with her husband. She eventually returned to Yorkshire and, after bringing up her family, has since worked for the Director of Music at the Cathedral. She can be contacted regarding auditions, external concert bookings, CD sales, appointments and all general enquiries via the music office between 10.30am and 3.30pm Monday to Thursday during term time.

Jonathon Nicholls, a native of the West Midlands, is a former pupil of Aylestone School and Hereford Sixth Form College. He has studied the organ with Peter Dyke through the Diocese of Hereford Organists' Training Scheme since 2006, supported by St Mary's Church, Marden, where he was the organist. Since September 2007, he has been organ scholar at St Laurence's Church, Ludlow. Having achieved a pass with distinction at Grade 8, Jonathon accepted a place to read Music at the University of Huddersfield in 2008.