Conductor, TOM GRIFFITHS
Thomas Morley was among the greatest of the Tudor composers of madrigals, canzonets, ayres, and motets. He studied under William Byrd , graduated as Bachelor of Music of Oxford in 1588, and was probably organist of St. Paul's Cathedral soon afterwards. In 1592 he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and in Rolls of Assessments of the last six years of the sixteenth century his name appears, on one occasion side by side with William Shakespeare 's, both citizens having their goods valued at the same modest amount. His contemporaries must have held him in affection as well as esteem, and his good friend Weelkes composed a song in remembrance of him.