Daniel Hyde has had important careers as both a choral director and an organist. In 2019, he became director of the prestigious Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
Hyde was born in the U.K. in 1980. As with so many other figures in the world of English choral music, he began his career as a boy chorister, enrolling in the Durham Cathedral chorister school at age seven. Hyde's career as a boy singer was cut short when his voice broke a year before he was set to leave the Durham choir, so he took up the organ instead. By 17, he was already an organ scholar (an organist who furn...