George Maybee

George Nelson Maybee (born March 13, 1913 in Madoc / Ontario ; † July 31, 1973 in Kingston / Ontario) was a Canadian organist, choir director and music teacher.

Maybee studied in Canada with Healey Willan and in England with Sydney Nicholson at the English School of Church Music in Chislehurst. He then worked as a choirmaster at Christ Church in Belleville, among others, and in 1942 became organist and choir director at St. George's Cathedral in Kingston, which he made a center of Anglican church music. He visited Great Britain with his The Gentlemen and Boys of St George's Cathedral Choir in 1954 and 1965 and performed in church services at Westminster Abbey , St Paul's Cathedral , York Minster and King's College Chapel in Cambridge. In 1964 he gave a concert in Washington in memory of John F. Kennedy .

In 1962 Elizabeth II made him a Fellow and Canadian Commissioner of the Royal School of Church Music . In this capacity, he toured Canada and the United States, setting the standard for choral singing and performing English church music in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He has taught as a visiting professor at Queen's University and became the Music and Art Coordinator for the Frontenac County Board of Education . He had one of his last appearances with his choir when Elizabeth II visited Canada in 1973.

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SURNAME	Maybee, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maybee, George Nelson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian organist, choir director and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madoc (Ontario)
DATE OF DEATH	July 31, 1973
Place of death	Kingston (Ontario)