Harrison Oxley | |
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Birth name | Thomas Frederick Harrison Oxley |
Also known as | Fred Oxley |
Born | England | 3 April 1933
Died | 6 April 2009 | (aged 76)
Genres | Classical |
Occupation | Organist |
Instrument | Pipe organ |
Years active | 1957–2003 |
Thomas Frederick Harrison Oxley (known professionally as Harrison Oxley and socially as Fred Oxley) (3 April 1933 – 6 April 2009) was a British organist, who was appointed Organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral aged 24. At the time, he was the youngest cathedral organist in the country. He was the first English cathedral organist to supplement the boys' voices in the cathedral choir with those of girls; he began to use girls' voices as early as the 1960s as a separate choir and to support the boys' voices for large events. The cathedral choir then became a permanent mixed treble line from the early 1970s until 1984.