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 recording of Greta Tomlins's Let all the world in every corner sing has 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). In March 2014 he played the organ in an ABC Classic FM broadcast of a new work by composer Gerard Brophy for Guildford Grammar School in Perth, Australia.
Daniel is also a College 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, a Praelector, and he lectures at the Faculties of Music and History.
Sakura Fish
Organ Scholar
Sakura is in her first year studying Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Homerton. During the Coronavirus lockdown, she was first drawn to learning the organ after watching an online organ concert; being amazed at how versatile the instrument was, she had the strong desire to start learning it. Sakura took up organ under Anne Marsden Thomas and Frederick Stocken at the junior department of the Royal Academy of Music (JRAM). During the same year, she became the Organ Scholar at All Saint’s Church, Bishops Stortford, as well as playing in services at school, the Perse, in Cambridge. She also regularly practised organ at St John the Evangelist's Church, Cambridge, where Homerton's services are held.
In her solo playing, she has played in the organ concerts at JRAM, as well as taking part in organ masterclasses, most notably from Daniel Moult at the Barnes Music festival. She also attended the TOSE summer course, where she had the opportunity of receiving tuition from Martin Schmeding, as well as Simon Williams, Thomas Bell and Sarah Baldock.
During her gap year, alongside her scholarship at All Saint’s Church, she was the Accompanist and Junior Organ Scholar at the Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge, where she accompanied the Junior and Youth Choirs during rehearsals. She also became an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, after passing her ARCO examinations in the summer 2024 exam season.
Sakura plays the piano and trombone and holds a grade 8 in both. She is also a keen violinist, studying it 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.
Manav Paul
Organ Student
Manav Paul is a third-year Music student at Christ's College. He took up the organ in sixth form having played the piano since childhood and began to play services at his local church, Our Lady and Saint Vincent, Potters Bar. Manav learns with William Whitehead and was self-taught prior to playing with the Charter Choir. His musical interests outside of playing the organ include jazz, singing, composing, and conducting. Manav plays saxophone in and directs the Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra, sings in Christ's Choir, and is treasurer of and conducts concerts for Christ's College Music Society. Manav enjoys composing, his setting of the text Oculi Omnium having won the 2023 Hadfield Composition Competition. This piece is due to appear on Jesus College Choir's upcoming album The Living Fire.
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.
