Noël Tredinnick

Tredinnick was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to church music and music education.

Tredinnick was responsible for much of the congregational music at former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey's enthronement in April 1991 at Canterbury Cathedral. He introduced a more contemporary language to a service, which up to that point, had primarily embraced a more traditional language. Tredinnick believes that new music is the natural result of faith. He has written that "Creativity goes hand in hand with an alive experience of the Lord as Christians express their own love and share their faith in words."

In 1972 Tredinnick was appointed Organist and Director of Music at the church of All Souls, Langham Place, in the heart of the West End of London: a post he still holds. He founded the All Souls Orchestra on the instruction of the then rector, the hymnwriter Michael Baughen, and has since conducted the orchestra at many Christian events, services and festivals in the UK and internationally. The orchestra is well-known as a distinctive voice in Christian worship, providing uplifting accompaniments to hymns and popular songs as well as performing classical works in a Christian context.

Dr Noël Harwood Tredinnick BEM FRSCM (born 9 March 1949) is a British composer, organist, orchestrator and conductor. He was awarded a Lambeth DMus degree in March 2002. In Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honours bestowed in 2021, he received a BEM (British Empire Medal) for life-long services to Church Music and Music Education. Noël has toured extensively in Europe, the USA, Australia and South Africa as both lecturer and conductor.