Biography

Charles Maxtone-Smith is Organist of Buckfast Abbey, Devon. He is a prize-winning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, with an MA Distinction, the DipRAM award, and the Advanced Diploma, as a student of Professors David Titterington, Bine Bryndorf, and Richard Pinel. He won the Musicians’ Company Award for Organists, which, from 2023 to 2025, provides generous funding for further study. He currently takes lessons with Christophe Mantoux at Saint-Séverin, Paris, studying French Baroque and Romantic repertoire. He previously held organ scholarships at Hereford Cathedral, New College, Oxford, Westminster Abbey, Royal Hospital Chelsea, and King’s College, London. Since 2014 he has been one of the Festival Organists at the annual Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy, and has played for several BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.

Award: Organists’ Award 2023