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ASSISTANT
ORGANIST |
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From Michael Tavinor the Dean |
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In 1995 he
moved to St Albans Cathedral as organ scholar, and in 1998 he took up
his current post as assistant organist of Hereford Cathedral. Recitals
and concert tours have taken him across Britain, Ireland, Europe and North
America, and in 1993 he was awarded second prize in the interpretation
competition at the prestigious St Albans International Organ Festival.
His first solo CD, of music from Bach’s Clavierübung III, was
released in 1997, and both this disc and Sounds Idyllic, recorded
at Hereford Cathedral in 2002, have received much critical praise. He
has a keen interest in teaching, having founded a successful Organists’
Training Scheme in South Wales, and he has been closely involved in the
similar scheme recently launched in the Hereford diocese. He has enjoyed
transcribing orchestral and other works for the organ, and has occasionally
dabbled in composing; his arrangement of the National Anthem (in eighteenth-century
style) was performed at the opening service of the 2000 Three Choirs Festival
by the Orchestra of St John’s, Smith Square and the Festival Chorus.
Following the retirement of Dr Roy Massey in 2001 he was acting organist
at the cathedral for a term before the arrival of Geraint Bowen. Recent appearances have included being the piano soloist in Hereford Choral Society’s performance of Constant Lambert’s The Rio Grande, five performances in a week of his own transcription of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf for over 1500 schoolchildren, and eleven events in the 2006 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford. In 2005 he recorded a series of short programmes from Germany for BBC Radio 3 exploring Bach’s 260-mile journey to Lübeck in 1705, broadcast as part of that network’s highly successful A Bach Christmas. |
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