Lawrence Cluderay

Lawrence Cluderay studied in England with H.P. Richardson and Sir Edward Bairstow. He immigrated to Canada in 1947 and settled in Vancouver, where, save for a short stay 1960-61 in Calgary, he remained. He served as organist-choirmaster at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church and at St. John's (Shaughnessy) and St. Stephen's Anglican churches in Vancouver, and at Christ Church, Elbow Park, in Calgary.

He reviewed concerts for the Calgary Herald and Albertan and for the Vancouver Province 1966–73. He contributed 1954–73 to the CBC programs Music Diary, Critics at Large and Record Review. He served 1950–59 as director of the Vancouver Bach Choir, and the English traditions he maintained had a lasting effect on the choir's repertoire and style of performance. Notable among his achievements were the Easter performances of Bach's St Matthew Passion at St. Andrew's-Wesley Church and his preparation of the choir for the CBC's 1957 broadcast of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius. He retired in 1973.