He has held cathedral positions in New Zealand and the United States, and was organist of the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Suffolk until September 2018.
His organ teachers have included James Lancelot, Peter Wright, Susi Jeans and Gerre Hancock.
He has been assistant organist of Hampstead Parish Church, Master of the Choristers at Grimsby Minster, Director of Music at Saint Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, New Zealand, Organist-Choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, New York, US, and Organist & Master of the Choristers at Croydon Minster, London.
At the Royal Hospital School he was responsible for the famed 4-manual Hill, Norman & Beard Grand Organ of 1933.
As a recitalist, Cantrill has played in many celebrated British, European, American and Australasian venues.