St Peter's Organist Biography.

Beverley Manning has for many years been associated with St Peter's Church, Parkstone. Whilst at school in Kidderminster, Beverley had organ lessons at Worcester Cathedral from David Willcocks and later Douglas Guest.

Having gained the diploma of ARCO, he won an Organ Scholarship to Downing College, Cambridge, eventually becoming a pupil of George Guest at St John's College. He obtained the degrees of MA and Mus B at Cambridge and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, before becoming Director of Music at Canford School in Dorset.

On retirement from teaching he took up the organ again, playing for visiting choirs at - amongst others - Chichester, Winchester and St Paul's Cathedrals.