This site is a tribute to Alistair Dixon. He is much loved and will always be remembered.
Alistair Dixon, co-owner of the Bay Tree Hotel in Broadstairs died on Monday 6th November 2023. He was a man of many talents and achievements, not only in the hotel business, where he will be fondly remembered by guests and fellow members of the Broadstairs Tourism and Leisure Association on which he served as chair. Though prior to moving to Broadstairs he had a long career as a telecoms management consultant, he was best known as a gifted musician, a singer, organist and conductor. He co-founded the celebrated independent record label Signum Records for which he recorded the complete works of Thomas Tallis in a monumental nine-disc series with the professional choir Chapelle du Roi, which he founded and conducted. He also sang for many years as a Gentleman of Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal at St James Palace. He was a guiding light in amateur music making, as the inspirational Chair of the London Renaissance Singers for over ten years and as the leader of numerous choral workshops. In music publishing he set a high bar with his editions of choral music for the Cantiones Press. Alistair was a warm and loving man whose death leaves a huge gap in the lives of those who knew him and loved him - his husband Robert, his surviving family and a wide circle of friends.