
Vernon
Hoyle with wife Margaret and children Matthew and Alison in July 2006.
Vernon Hoyle: Some Personal Details
Vernon Hoyle was born in 1948 in Hatfield, South Yorkshire, where he received his first music lessons
from John Hubert Piper (a local schoolteacher and organist) and was a chorister
at the parish church. At the age of fifteen he became a student at the
Huddersfield School of Music, where his teachers included Eugenie Everest,
David Ingate, Ruth Ramsden, Winifred Smith, Richard Steinitz and Harold
Truscott. After five years at Huddersfield he
continued his formal education at the City of Birmingham College of Education
and the Open University. He has a BA (Hons) degree in music and English
literature, a BSc (Hons) degree in social sciences and six diplomas in
composition, piano, organ, singing and general musical disciplines, as well as
other qualifications in law, social sciences and education.
From 1969 until his retirement in 1998 he taught music and English in
secondary schools in West Yorkshire. In his
sundry capacities as chorister, organist, choral director, composer, arranger
and editor he has been active in Anglican church music for over fifty years.
Having gained much experience as a parish church organist and choirmaster in
the 1960s and 70s (much of this at Hatfield Parish Church), in the 80s and 90s,
as Musical Director of the Danensian Choir, a Doncaster-based group specialising in the performance
of English cathedral music, he directed the music at services in twenty-four
Anglican cathedrals and at other prominent foundations including Llandaff
Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Beverley Minster and St George’s Chapel, Windsor. In 2005 he
succeeded the late Dr Roger Bullivant as President of the Danensian Choir.
His
compositions and arrangements, many of which are published, comprise
educational works and choral music, much of this for the Anglican church. With Dr
Jonathan Wainwright he is
co-editor of a major collection of psalm chants entitled Cantica Nova,
collections of anthems for Holy Communion, Ascensiontide and Pentecost, a book
of seven settings of the Preces, Responses and Lord’s Prayer and a collection
of fifty Christmas carols for soprano alto and men entitled Nowell!
Nowell!,
all featuring music by contemporary composers.
He is
married to Margaret and they have a son, Matthew (b.1992) and a daughter,
Alison (b.1995).

CONTENTS
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Index
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Published Compositions
and Arrangements
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Other Compositions
and Arrangements
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Kirklees Cathedral Music
·
Psalm Chant Collection
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Psalm Chants by Vernon
Hoyle
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Psalm Chants by
Richard Lloyd
·
Psalm Chants by Louis
Halsey
·
Communion
Service
·
Anthems for Holy
Communion
·
Anthems for
Ascensiontide
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Anthems for Pentecost
·
Preces and Responses
·
Christmas Music
·
Music for School Ensembles
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Commissions
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Links to other web sites
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Contact Information