Timothy Day was educated at Oxford University where he was an organ scholar at St John's College, studying that instrument with James Dalton and Nicholas Danby. He read Music and then studied composition with Robert Sherlaw Johnson. After his time in Northampton he was appointed music curator in the British Library's Sound Archive. He created in the Library an educational trust to fund regular seminars on music and recording and to support the Edison Fellowship scheme. Timothy writes on cultural history and his publications include A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History and contributions to three Cambridge Companions including The Cambridge Companion to Singing. Timothy is particularly noted for his studies of Elgar's recordings of his own music, and lectures on the subject to interested groups. In 2018 he published a study of the performing styles of English cathedral choirs in the twentieth century, I Saw Eternity the Other Night.

Michael Nicholas was born in 1938 and educated at the City of London School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar. After graduating, he became organist and choirmaster of St James Church, Louth, after which time he was organist and choirmaster of St Matthew's Church, Northampton. During this time he also served as Head of Music at Northampton Grammar School (now Northampton School for Boys) and Musical Director of the Northampton Bach Choir. During this time he commissioned works from composers including Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and Herbert Howells. Since leaving Northampton he has been Organist and Master of the Choristers at Norwich Cathedral and the Church of St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich. He has published various works for choir and for organ, and has written Sightsinging (1966) and Muse at St Matthew's (1968).

John Bertalot was born in 1931 in Kent, and was an organ scholar at the Royal College of Music, and in both Oxford and Cambridge. After his studied he held the position of Director of Music at St Matthew's Church, and of the Northampton Bach Choir. He then spent eighteen years as Director of Music at Blackburn Cathedral, then following his predecessor in Northampton over to the United States. For sixteen years he was Director of Music at Trinity Church, Princeton, New Jersey, where he founded the acclaimed Princeton Singers. In over forty years of professional music-making he has led choral workshops all over the world. He has directed courses for the RSCM in UK, USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Robert Joyce was born in Tynemouth, Northumberland in 1927, and educated at Tynemouth High School and the Royal College of Music where he was a pupil of Harold Darke and William Harris. In 1946 he went up to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and in 1950 he was appointed organist of St Matthew's Church, Northampton, a position held concurrently with those of conductor of the Northampton Bach Choir and the Northampton Symphony Orchestra. In 1958 he was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers of Llandaff Cathedral. He retired from Cathedral life in 1973 in order to concentrate on lecturing and teaching at the Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff where he became Senior Lecturer. He made two solo organ recordings, one of which consisted of a notable early performance of Guilmant's First Organ Sonata. Robert passed away peacefully in June 2018 after a long debilitating illness.

Alec Wyton was perhaps better known in North America than in his homeland of England. He grew up in London and Northampton, and was the accompanist at the first performance of Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, when Britten himself donned choir robes and conducted. After his period in Northampton, he emigrated to the United States. After positions in Dallas and St Louis, from 1954 to 1974 he was Organist and Master of the Choristers at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York. There he broke all the rules – working with his choir alongside Duke Ellington, Ned Rorem, Leopold Stokowski and the cast of the musical “Hair”. Besides presiding over these prominent church music programs, he was the coordinator of the commission that produced The Hymnal 1982, the most commonly used hymn book in The Episcopal Church. Alec died in Danbury, Connecticut, in 2007.

Philip Pfaff was born in Ripon, in 1914 and died in 2014. He was a chorister at Ripon Cathedral, and later held a choral scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge. Following post-graduate study at the Royal College of Music he was appointed Organist at St Matthew's Church, Northampton, and Musical Director of the Northampton Bach Choir. During the Second World War Philip served in the Royal Air Force, and during this time both the Bach Choir and the choirs at St Matthews were led by Charles Barker and Charles Bull. At St Matthew's, Pfaff became the influential music teacher for one of Northampton's greatest sons, Sir Malcolm Arnold. In 1938 Pfaff completed his work on an edition of Handel's Messiah, and directed the Northampton Bach Choir (with the young Sir Malcolm Arnold as principal trumpet) in what was surely one of the earliest “period” performances of Handel's music.

Denys Pouncey was born in 1906 and educated at Marlborough College and Queens' College, Cambridge. He was Assistant Organist at St John's College, Cambridge from 1928 to 1934 and then took up the position of Organist and Master of the Choristers at St Matthew's Church, Northampton, where he founded the Northampton Bach Choir for a concert on Palm Sunday 1935. In 1936 he was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers of Wells Cathedral (where he succeeded Conrad Eden, his successor being Anthony Crossland), a position he held until his retirement in 1970. During the Second World War, Pouncey served in the Royal Air Force, and his duties at Wells Cathedral were filled by the Reverend H. G. Bawtree-Williams, an amateur organist from Hampshire. Denys died in 1999 at the age of 93.