Daniel Cook has worked widely as a choral conductor and organist. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Patrick Russill, James O’Donnell, and Nicolas Kynaston, and was successively Organ scholar of Worcester Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, before being appointed as Assistant Organist of Westminster Abbey in 2003. He was subsequently Assistant Director of Music of Salisbury Cathedral, Organist and Master of the Choristers of St Davids Cathedral in Wales, and Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey, before moving to his current role as Master of the Choristers and Organist of Durham Cathedral in 2017. Alongside these positions, he has been Music Director of the Dyfed Choir, the Farrant Singers, St Davids Cathedral Festival Chorus, the Grange Choral Society and Orchestra, and Durham University Choral Society.

In 2013, Daniel was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), an award offered to past students of the Academy who have distinguished themselves in the music profession and made a significant contribution to it in their particular field. He was made an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music (ARSCM) in 2022.

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