British keyboard artist Matthew Steynor was appointed Master Chorale Accompanist by Jo-Michael Scheibe in the fall of 2007. He moved to South Florida in 2004 and is now one of the most prominent church musicians in the area. He is the Director of Music at Trinity Cathedral in Miami, where he directs and accompanies the Cathedral Choir, as well the Anglican Chorale of Southeast Florida, a group which he co-founded. The formation of this new Chorale has garnered local interest, being featured in the Miami Herald and on WLRN during 2009.
Matthew Steynor was organ scholar at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he worked for two years with James Weeks (currently conductor of the New London Chamber Choir). During Steynor’s tenure as organ scholar, he recorded four compact discs, three as organist/accompanist and one as choir director. The discs received outstanding music reviews in highly respected music journals and are still available on iTunes and amazon.com. Mr. Steynor also conducted two major choral works while at Cambridge (Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem and Orff's Carmina Burana) and was selected by Stephen Cleobury to conduct the University Musical Society’s Wind Orchestra.
A Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Mr. Steynor is one of only a handful of organists achieving this standard to reside in the United States. He arrived in the state in 2004 from the Bahamas, where he had lived for two years and enjoyed a reputation as the nation's foremost organist. In the Bahamas, Steynor served as Assistant Organist at Nassau's Anglican Cathedral and was a full-time music teacher at an Anglican elementary school. He also formed a choir of men and boys at the Cathedral and conducted the Bahamas National Symphony Orchestra for the 2003-04 season.
In addition to his work with the Master Chorale of South Florida, Steynor accompanies Florida's Singing Sons Concert Choir and also works with the New World School of the Arts High School vocal department. He has been heard on the nationally syndicated Minnesota Public Radio show Pipedreams, and in 2008 was one of fifty choirmasters selected to participate in BBC Music Magazine’s worldwide “Fifty Greatest Carols” survey.
