Peter Boorman

Organist, died 2009 [From The Times, October 2009] Peter Boorman was a musician of rare versatility who proved remarkably adept at operating on all sides of the musical divide. Orchestral player, harpsichordist, teacher, accompanist, and, he was for 25 years the distinguished organist and master of the choristers at St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. There, in February 1963, he was the first to introduce female voices into the fabric of a cathedral choir — a claim that was disputed and led to a lively correspondence on the letters page of The Times in 1993. Peter William Boorman was born in Walkern, Hertfordshire, in 1923, the middle son of a cycle shop owner. He was educated at Alleyne’s Grammar School, Stevenage.