Christine Wells

Christine is Director of Music at St Mary the Virgin, Hambleden, near Henley-on-Thames – a post she has held for almost 65 years. She was originally a first-study cellist at the Royal Academy of Music but switched to study organ with Douglas Hawkridge, continuing later with Harold Darke at St Michael's, Cornhill, City of London. She performs in concert both as a cellist and organist and she is a past-President of the Berkshire Organists' Association. In 2013 she received Maundy Money from the Queen and was awarded a BEM in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.