Who's Who?
THE DEAN, Roger Greeves, is responsible for the conduct of services in Chapel. As a Fellow of Clare,
he acts as a Tutor and Director of Studies in Theology. He has a general pastoral role among the Fellows and staff,
undergraduates and post-graduates. He is an Anglican priest, having served for some years previously as a Methodist
Minister in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh. He read Classics at TCD and Theology at Cambridge, and taught the New
Testament for three years at St Paul’s United Theological College, Limuru, Kenya, where he also became Principal. He
has worked in churches large and small and has been a Chaplain to students in London and Cambridge. For six years he
was Chaplain of Robinson College, and more briefly at Peterhouse and Fitzwilliam colleges. When the government opened
a reception Centre for Asylum Seekers at Oakington, Cambridge, he was asked to establish a multi-faith Chaplaincy on
the site. He has served as Chaplain to Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Fulbourn Hospital. At the height of the troubles in
Northern Ireland he served as Rapporteur to the British Council of Churches, acting as a go-between with the Irish
churches. For relaxation he enjoys music, reading (especially Cambridge history), museums and galleries, photography,
fly-fishing and fly-tying, golf and watching sports. He is married to Margaret, who is Keeper of Administration at the
Fitzwilliam Museum. They have four children and three grandsons.
THE DECANI SCHOLAR, Jim Blackstone, works alongside the Dean in a part-time capacity. He helps to lead services and has a ministry of pastoral care among students. After undergraduate studies in Theology and Religious Studies at Peterhouse (1994-97) he worked in a residential community for emotionally and behaviourally disturbed children, studied psychology, taught in Poland, undertook commissioned portraits in oil, lived in a contemplative monastic community, taught Religious Studies at a secondary school in Catford, south London, and worked as parish assistant in the parish of All Saints’, Blackheath. He is now in training for ordained ministry in the Church of England and researching for a PhD in the Faculty of Divinity on the relation between religious experience and theological knowledge in the works of the fourteenth century Orthodox saint, Gregory Palamas.
THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC, Tim Brown,
has been Director of Music at Clare College since 1979. He is Director
of Studies in Music at Clare and Pembroke Colleges, Cambridge. Tim
Brown received his initial musical training as a chorister at Westminster
Abbey, and later as a member of King's College Choir, Cambridge.
For many years he conducted the Cambridge University Chamber Choir
and is now the director of the London-based professional chamber
choir, English Voices. He has been guest chorus-master at the Berlin
Staatsoper and at the Flanders Opera, and is a popular conductor
at singing weeks, including Europa Cantat and the Berwang Holiday
Music Course. In November 2002 he directed a project with the Berlin-based
RIAS radio choir. He has edited a number of choral volumes for Faber
Music and is a contributing editor to the complete edition of music
by William Walton, published by Oxford University Press.
THE SENIOR ORGAN SCHOLAR is Simon Thomas Jacobs, who is in his second year, reading for a degree in music.
Prior to coming to Cambridge, Simon spent a year as Organ Scholar at All Saints’ Church, Margaret Street in London’s West End. He currently studies the organ with David Sanger in Cambridge and Jacques van Oortmerssen in Amsterdam and has also participated in masterclasses with Dame Gillian Weir, Nicolas Kynaston, Colm Carey and William Whitehead.
Simon began his musical training as a chorister and later Organ Scholar at Waltham Abbey in Essex. Subsequently, he became a sixth form academic and music scholar at Forest School in North East London and also a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music, where he studied organ with Gerdi Troskie and piano with John Barstow. During this time he was awarded the Diploma of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in organ performing, with distinction.
In addition to playing the organ and getting very excited about the music of the North German Baroque masters, Simon enjoys Wagner, good food, skiing and "The Good Life".
For further information please visit Simon’s website: www.simonthomasjacobs.com
THE JUNIOR ORGAN SCHOLAR,
Ashok Gupta ,
is in his first year, reading Music. Before coming to Clare, Ashok was Organ Scholar at Dean Close School in Cheltenham for three years. Here he studied piano with Helen Porter and Philip Martin, and organ with Robert Houssart. He gained his ABRSM Diploma in 2004 and became Young Musician of Gloucestershire in 2005. He performed Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' in 2002 and Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto in 2006. He enjoys jazz, standup comedy and supports Liverpool FC.
THE CHAPEL ADMINISTRATOR, Kate Littlechild, is responsible for running the day-to-day administration of
the Chapel, including all Chapel bookings, producing service sheets and co-ordinating extra and special services. In
addition she plays a large part in helping the Director of Music administratively with the musical side of Chapel and
in particular with the Chapel Choir. She also looks after the Bennett Room in Memorial Court. Her Quaker upbringing
and musical hobbies as a child – she plays the piano and the violin - have provided her with experiences relevant to the
job she is doing. She read Spanish at Nottingham University, and her past jobs have included working for the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office and the British Council. She enjoys contact with people. Kate is married to Tony, and they have
three children. She is a keen follower of football, works out regularly at the gym, listens to all types of music,
enjoys foreign travel, and is at present researching her family history.
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