James Kendrick Pyne

James Kendrick Pyne (5 February 1852 – 3 September 1938) was an English organist and composer.

Biography He was born in Bath into a musical family. His great uncle George Pyne was an alto singer, and George Pyne's daughters Susan and Louisa Pyne were both accomplished singers. By the age of 11 he was the organist at All Saints' Church, Bath. At the age of 12 his father sent him to study with Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist at Winchester and later Gloucester Cathedral.

In 1873 he became an organist at Chichester Cathedral. In 1874 he went to the United States to become an organist at St. Mark's, Philadelphia. A year later Pyne returned to England to Manchester where he would become a leading figure in the musical life of the city. He took over the organist position at Manchester Cathedral and later became the organist for the City Corporation. In 1893 he was appointed professor of the organ at the Royal Manchester College of Music and became Dean of the Faculty of Music in 1908.

Kendrick Pyne married Agnes Ireland, the youngest daughter of General Charles Ireland of the Madras Service Corps. The couple had five sons and four daughters.

Pyne's studio 4-manual instrument which was his teaching instrument at the Royal Manchester College of Music is now at St Peter's Collegiate Church in Ruthin, Denbighshire, and was rebuilt by Henry Willis & Sons in 2003.

Works Compositions include: Communion Service in A flat Collection of songs setting the poems of Edwin Waugh

Writings "Personal recollections of Samuel Sebastian Wesley", English Church Music