Daniel Trocmé-Latter
Director of Music
Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter was appointed Director of Music at Homerton in 2011 following the completion of his doctoral studies. As a choral director he has conducted choirs across the UK, as well as internationally across four continents. He has directed three commercial recordings with the Charter Choir: Audite Finem (2014), Till all the place with music ring (music for Christmas and Advent; 2019), and Psalms, Stars & Light (2024). Some of Daniel’s own compositions appear on all three albums. The Choir's recordings of Greta Tomlins's Let all the world and Bobby McFerrin's 23rd Psalm have featured on BBC Radio 3.
After taking up the organ aged 17, Daniel served as Organ Scholar at Selwyn and Robinson Colleges, Cambridge. His teachers included Gerard Brooks, David Sanger, and Anne Page. He has given recitals in Europe and Australasia, including at several Cambridge colleges, Southwark and Portsmouth Cathedrals, and at churches in France, Australia, and New Zealand. He has also played on several recordings, including on the organ for The Moon of Wintertime (Selwyn College Chapel Choir, 2005) and on the harmonium in The Minpins (London Schools Symphony Orchestra, 2003; an arrangement of Roald Dahl’s story set to the music of Jean Sibelius), and in March 2014 he played the organ in a radio broadcast of a new work by composer Gerard Brophy for Guildford Grammar School in Perth, Australia.
Daniel is also Associate Professor in Music at Homerton, teaching a variety of undergraduate modules in the Cambridge Music Tripos, including practical musicianship, analysis, tonal skills, and music history courses. Alongside this, he is a Director of Studies, lectures at the Faculties of Music and History, and is Junior Pro-Proctor for the University of Cambridge.
Sakura Fish
Senior Organ Scholar
Sakura is in her second year at Homerton studying Biological Natural Sciences. Sakura took up the organ under Anne Marsden Thomas and Frederick Stocken at the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music (JRAM). She was the organ scholar for two years at her local church in Bishop’s Stortford before coming to Cambridge.
As a soloist she has played in organ concerts at JRAM, as well as in organ masterclasses with celebrated concert organists such as Isabelle Demers and Daniel Moult. She has attended The Organ Scholar Experience (TOSE) summer course, as well as going on an organ tour to Paris which gave her the opportunity to play on many historic Cavaillé-Coll organs.
Sakura is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, having passed her diploma examinations in summer 2024, and currently studies organ with Katelyn Emerson. During her first year at Cambridge, she accompanied the Charter Choir at Hampton Court Palace and at Guildford Cathedral, as well as on the summer choir tour to the Channel Islands.
Sakura plays the piano and trombone and holds a Grade 8 in both. She is also an accomplished violinist, studying at JRAM under Clare Thompson, and holding an LRSM diploma. Sakura was a member of National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for three years and performed in many major concert halls in the UK, including at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms. Currently she plays in the Cambridge University Orchestra, and is part of a string quartet through the University’s Instrumental Award Scheme.
William Dear
Junior Organ Scholar
Will is a first-year Music student at Homerton. He first encountered the organ aged 15 at a local church, and quickly became taken with the huge variety of sounds and colours available on one instrument, and how impossible it is to get bored when no two instruments ever sound or work the same! From 2023–2025, he was Organ Scholar at St Andrew’s Church, Farnham, studying with Evelyn Tinker. He has also worked closely with the choirs of St Thomas-on-the Bourne, Farnham as an assistant organist. He was awarded the Nich Darnton Memorial Plate for the most promising organist at the Godalming Festival 2025. He studies the organ with Ann Elise Smoot.
Will is also an enthusiastic composer, and enjoys writing both contemporary concert music and choral music. Prior to university, he studied composition at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, studying with James Hoyle, as a recipient of the Humphrey Searle bursary for composition. Here, he enjoyed the opportunity to work with and be performed by top players, including the Riot Ensemble and Anne Denholm. In 2023, he was an awardee of the Martin Read Foundation’s Young Composers’ Scheme, and was highly commended in the 2024 Joan Weller Composition Competition at the RCMJD.
Also a keen pianist, Will is Accompanist Scholar at Homerton in addition to being Junior Organ Scholar, accompanying the Homerton Singers and many other musical events in College. He holds Grade 8s in both piano and in music theory. Outside of music, he enjoys history, linguistics and board games.
The Revd Ceri Payne
Choir Chaplain
The Revd Ceri Payne loved singing in her secondary school chamber choir in Beverley, Yorkshire. As a student at Cambridge, Ceri sang with MagSoc in Queens’ College but switched to playing the violin with the Trinity College Rehearsal Orchestra (fortunately, since she otherwise would not have met her husband, who was the orchestra’s leader). When Ceri came to faith and began to go to church regularly in her 20s, she went back to singing, but this time in the church choir. More recently, being one of the team at St John the Evangelist Church and her secondment to Great St Mary’s in Cambridge have helped her to grow and deepen her love of traditional choral music. As the Choir Chaplain, Ceri is enjoying getting to know the Charter Choir as well as their music. She is always ready to have a coffee and a chat, about music, God, faith, or anything else. You can contact Ceri at cjp86@cam.ac.uk.
