Andy Thomas is an organist, pianist and choir director with over thirty years’ experience of reinvigorating music in churches from different Christian traditions in the UK and overseas. He is currently a freelance church musician based in Bedfordshire, where he works with several Anglican and Methodist churches.
Prior to that, he was an associate tutor at the Royal School of Church Music and served as Director of Music at the Anglican church of St John’s, Waterloo, where he built, from scratch, one of the most diverse church choirs in London. Andy also served as Musical Director for the Waterloo Festival and created a novel film scoring competition for new composers in partnership with the British Film Institute and Southbank Sinfonia.
Andy is passionate about how music can help to build and transform church communities. In 2020, he published Resounding Body via Sacristy Press, which outlines an inclusive vision of church music based on St Paul’s metaphor of the body of Christ. In 2026, he followed that up with Resounding Hope, which describes how even straightforward, accessible music-making grounds congregations in God’s presence, helps us to build for the new creation, and enables us to rediscover who we are in Christ.
