Hugh Davies had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died peacefully at home.
Mr Davies was born in Pembrokeshire and attended Fishguard County Secondary School – one of the first comprehensive schools in Wales. His mother was a secretary at the school and his father worked on the railway. His first organ teacher was Peter Boorman of St David’s Cathedral, but it was as a choral scholar that he went up to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in 1970. At Cambridge he was strongly influenced by the teaching of Peter le Huray and later continued his organ studies with Gillian Weir.