WHO WE ARE
Reflect. Connect. Grow.
St Margaret’s is a haven of peace in bustling Putney. A space to reflect and meet God. To connect with others, celebrate life and find support when we need it most. To grow strong bonds with our local community and make positive change.
THE VICAR
Susan has been vicar of St Margaret’s since September 2026.
Susan grew up in the South of England. After she and her husband Robert met at the University of St Andrews, they lived in Edinburgh and then settled in Brixton.
Prior to ordination, Susan had a varied career in public policy and organisational development and strategy. Her husband Robert’s work as a newspaper reporter gave Susan the chance to live and work in Budapest (where their daughter was born). Their son was born during a later spell in London, before the whole family moved for four years to New York City.
It was Susan’s calling to ordination in the Church of England that brought the family back to London in 2016. Susan trained for ordination at Ridley Hall in Cambridge. After ordination she served her curacy in the Parish of Herne Hill and then at St Barnabas with Christ’s Chapel in Dulwich. You can contact Susan Wright by email vicar@stmargaretsputney.org or text/call 07706 755018.
Susan’s day-off is usually on a Monday.
GUY MURGATROYD
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
Praised for his searching virtuosity and inquisitive approach to programming, British Pianist Guy Murgatroyd excels in many musical specialties beyond his main discipline as a piano soloist including a longstanding passion for Art Song and Lieder as well as working as an operatic conductor, organist, répétiteur and coach.
Commencing musical studies at the age of eleven Guy then attained a place at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on a scholarship studying under Victor Sangiorgio and Pascal Nemirowski. During this time he won every major Conservatoire award for piano accompaniment as well as numerous academic tributes.
Further Postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Michael Dussek resulted in numerous additional awards for performances as a collaborative pianist including a Master of Arts and DipRAM. After completing his Masters, Guy studied privately under the mentorship of renown Russian-Finnish soprano, pianist and pedagogue, Nina Rautio; one of Pavarotti's much revered stage collaborators.
Since completing formal studies solo performances have taken him to the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St Martin in the Fields church and the Holywell music room in Oxford. Additionally he has partnered with many of the countries leading young singers for Art Song and operatic repertoire including several appearances at the Oxford International Song Festival.
Guy is the Musical Director of independent UK opera company and GQ magazine 2020 award winner Rogue Opera. Over his six years since joining the company, he has arranged, rehearsed and musically directed two new productions every season in close collaboration with company director, entrepreneur and Mezzo Soprano, Bronwen Stephens-Harding. Rogue Opera has recently concluded a sell out tour of a newly commissioned production of Bizet’s Carmen, “Carmen-Reimagined”, for the brewery chain Fullers.
As well as full length productions for clients ranging from LGT, Fullers and Brasserie Blanc, Rogue Opera has created a large number of bespoke corporate and outreach events in venues including The Garsington Opera stage, Clapham Grand and primary schools across the South East, as well as an epic livestream series throughout the 2020 pandemic.
This year will see Guy work as Assistant Conductor on Regent's Opera's spring production of Salomé, take up a Bayreuth scholarship to visit Wagner's Festspielhaus Theatre at the end of the summer and in between work with Lidiya Yankovskaya as Assistant Conductor for the Grange Festival's summer production of Eugene Onegin all while maintaining a busy schedule of Solo and operatic engagements.
OUR PCC
Parochial Church Council Members 2025/6:
Sarah Curl (Curate), Mor Gartner (secretary), Tony Hawksley (Churchwarden and Treasurer), John Roberts (Churchwarden), Andrew Gairdner (assistant churchwarden, deanery synod), Hilary Belden (assistant churchwarden), , Sarah Cooper (Lay Licensed Reader, Deanery Synod), Johanna Sanchez-Mawkin (deanery synod), Sue Mason, Sally Strahan, Lydia Finney, Clare Atkins, Geraldine Steward, Astrit Muhaxheri, Elizabeth Ames, Tolek Petch, Jonathan Crane