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Mormon Tabernacle Choir Music Directors—Past to Present

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has existed since the 1840s. Under the direction of Church President Brigham Young, a small choir was formed to sing at a conference of the Church just days after the first pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. Since the Choir's formation, there have been 15 choir directors in all. Below is a list of Mormon Tabernacle Choir directors in the order of the years they served.

John Parry (1849–54)

The first conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, John Parry, was an early Welsh convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After the 1849 general conference of the Church, where Parry led 85 Welsh converts in singing, Brigham Young asked Parry to formalize a choir to provide music for future conferences. Parry organized what later became known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

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