Philip Crozier was appointed Organist and Director of Music at St. James United Church in 1986. Born in England, he began learning the piano at six, the organ at sixteen and was a treble chorister in Blackburn and Carlisle Cathedral choirs. In 1979 he graduated from Cardiff University where he was awarded the Glynne Jones Prize for Organ in 1978 and 1979 and pursued further studies in Paris with André Marchal. Philip Crozier has given recitals extensively in Europe and North America. In 1984 he moved to Canada and married Sylvie Poirier, an organist and painter, with whom he formed an organ duo team in 1990, becoming known internationally through their concert career and commissioning of organ duets by composers from Canada and abroad and the release of recordings which include most recently CDs of solo organ works by Petr Eben.