Peter Holder is Organ Scholar at St Albans Cathedral, where he accompanies the Abbey Girls Choir and Cathedral Choir in the daily services and assists with training of the choristers. He is currently in his third year as an undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with David Titterington. During the course of his studies, he has been awarded the Joyce Rhoda Danzelmann Award for his Entrance Scholarship, the William John Kipps Scholarship, the Gwen & Eric Windo Organ Award and the E. Power Biggs Award. He was educated at The King’s School, Worcester, and was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral and later Organ Scholar at St Thomas’s Church, Stourbridge. Before arriving at St Albans in 2010, he spent a year as Organ Scholar at The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, having completed a gap year as Organ Scholar at Southwell Minster, where he studied with Paul Hale. He takes up the position of Organ Scholar at Westminster Abbey in September 2012.