Sheffield Bach Choir members were greatly saddened to hear that their former Conductor and Music Director Dr Simon Lindley passed away on 25 February 2025 aged 76, following a short illness.
Simon Geoffrey Lindley was born in Barnehurst, Kent, in 1948, the elder of two children of the Rev Geoffrey Lindley, a Yorkshireman who was curate of St Michael’s, East Wickham, and his wife Jeanne (née Cammaerts), whose own father was the Belgian poet and art historian Émile Cammaerts. Simon had a sister, Ruth, who became a chorister at the London Oratory. Their great-grandmother, Marie Brema, was a friend of the composer Edward Elgar and sang the Angel in the premiere of The Dream of Gerontius at the 1900 Birmingham Festival.
“We were devastated to hear that Simon had died” said Chorus Chair Chris Walker. “He was a superb choral conductor who really knew how to make sure that we were not just prepared, but confident, on concert days. His rehearsals were punctuated by lively and often amusing anecdotes about his experiences with composers, conductors and musicians.”
Simon’s obituary was published in various regional and national newspapers:
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