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Simon Lindley (born 10 October 1948) is a British organist, choirmaster, conductor and composer. He has been organist at Leeds Town Hall since 1976 and Master of the Music and Organist of Leeds Parish Church (the Parish Church of St Peter at Leeds) since 1975. Senior Lecturer in Music at Leeds Polytechnic from 1976 to 1987, Lindley held the post of Senior Assistant Music Officer for Leeds City Council from 1987 to 2011. He was president of the Royal College of Organists from 2000 to 2003 and of the IAO, the Incorporated Association of Organists, from 2003 to 2005. He has been long-serving Secretary of the Church Music Society since 1991. He served on the editorial panel for New English Praise (2006), a supplement to The New English Hymnal and was, with the late and much-loved Michael Fleming, responsible for much of the musical compilation of the supplement. He has been chairman of the Ecclesiastical Music Trust from 2004 - the trustees all being directors of the English Hymnal Company - and Chairman of the long-established Yorkshire College of Music and Drama from 2006. Lindley was in 2008 elected as President of the Campaign for the Traditional Cathedral Choir in succession to the late Dr John Sanders OBE. In 2009, Lindley was elected as a Trustee of the Halifax 900 Trust at historic Halifax Minster and appointed Chairman of the Cavaillé-Coll Steering Group at Sheffield Cathedral. During the course of 2009, Lindley undertook two major overseas visits on behalf of the Royal School of Church Music as Choral Course Director in Cape Town (at the South African National Summer School) and North Carolina at the Carolina Course for Girl Choristers and Adult Singers; during Easter Week he also gave recitals and lectures in Russia at Kirov and in Moscow at the Gnessins Academy. In Spring 2010, Lindley directed the Swiss Archdeaconry Choirs' Festival Weekend at Christ Church, Lausanne and Lausanne Cathedral. His published compositions include a number of Carol arrangements, most notably "Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain" (Banks Music Publications). Lindley enjoys the distinction of having produced more Easter Carol arrangements than any other living British composer: "Now the green blade riseth", "On Easter morn, ere break of day", "Jacob's Ladder" [all published by Banks Music Publications], "The Bell Man's Song" [published by Encore Publications", "Cedit hiems enimus" [from Piae Cantiones, 1582, and "Mary, weep not, weep no longer" [Collaudemus]. He has also produced several popular anthems including "Lord, I have loved the habitation of Thy house" (Royal School of Church Music) and a very widely sung Ave Maria available in two versions, the original for upper voices (Banks Music Publications - this appeared originally under the imprint of Basil Ramsey, Publisher of Music - and an SATB setting (Royal School of Church Music). The Ave Maria has been much recorded and broadcast by numerous choirs, a tally that includes a performance by celebrated soprano Katherine Jenkins on her album Sacred Arias.