Andrew Moore (b. 1954, Hayes) is a Catholic priest, composer, conductor, arranger and editor.Trained in violin, organ and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and in theology at Cambridge, he was ordained a Benedictine monk at Downside Abbey in 1982. For many years he directed the monastic schola in Gregorian chant and liturgical broadcasts, led the school Schola Cantorum on European tours, and served as parish priest at Little Malvern (Elgar’s resting place). From 1996 he worked in the Diocese of Portsmouth, latterly as part-time chaplain at St Mary’s Shaftesbury, retiring in 2021 retiring to Hampshire.Best known for widely sung mass settings, responsorial psalms, motets and organ music, he has also composed songs, chamber and orchestral works, a cantata and a Requiem. His attractive, melodic style fuses English pastoral warmth, plainsong modality and touches of jazz harmony, drawing on a vast range from Byrd to Bernstein.He has compiled major hymnals, edited liturgical collections and arranged music from Bach and Joplin to Janáček and Schubert. Since 2011 he has conducted the Winchester Camerata, preparing many of his own string-orchestra arrangements of works by Butterworth, Prokofiev, Ravel, Strauss and others.