Recital on the 1905 Jehmlich Organ: Robert Smith (York Oratory) at Christuskirche, Dresden on Saturday 4th August 2018

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Recital on the 1905 Jehmlich Organ

Robert Smith (York Oratory)

Add to my Calendar 04-08-2018 19:30 04-08-2018 21:30 36 Recital on the 1905 Jehmlich Organ Robert Smith is currently the Assistant Organist of St. Wilfrid's Church (York Oratory in Formation). In 2014/2015 he served as the Assistant Organist at St. Paul's Bloor Street, the largest Anglican church in Toronto, where he regularly accompanied the church choir. Previously the organ scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, he accompanied and occasionally directed the choir of that college for their regular services and concerts. He began musical life aged 5 on the piano, then took up the organ aged 13 and received lessons from Henry Fairs at the Birmingham Conservatoire for five years. Upon reaching Oxford Robert was taught by Stephen Farr and William Whitehead, as well as achieving his ARCO diploma, for which he also won the Sowerbutts Prize and Durrant Prize. He has had the pleasure of participating in numerous choir concerts and tours, notably at Blackburn Cathedral, Lancaster Priory, Birmingham Cathedral, Ampleforth Abbey, Coventry Cathedral and three times at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Robert regularly performs recitals as well as participating in masterclasses led by David Goode, Guy Bovet and Thomas Trotter. He collaborated with conductor Nicholas Cleobury for a concert recorded by the BBC.  Summer 2014 saw Robert take part in a choir tour of America and this has been followed by four recital tours of Germany, across Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria. His first commercial solo CD The Franz Liszt Memorial Organ in Weimar was released by the German record label JUBAL in April 2015.  Website Christuskirche, Dresden DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Christuskirche
Elsa-Brändström-Straße 1
Dresden-Strehlen
Dresden
Saxony
01219
Germany

Saturday 4th August 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Charles Villiers Stanford – Fantasia and Toccata, Op.57
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Rhosymedre
Johannes Brahms – O Gott, du frommer Gott, Op.122 no.7
Richard Gowers – Chorale Prelude on 'Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist'
Patrick Gowers – An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary
Max Reger – Benedictus, Op.59 no.9
Herbert Howells – Saraband (in modo elegiaco)
Edmund Rubbra – Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott, Op.69
Bertie Baigent – A quiet pavan, with canons
Edward Elgar – Sospiri, Op.70
Arvo Pärt – Annum per annum

Performers

Robert Smith – organ

Programme Note

Robert Smith is currently the Assistant Organist of St. Wilfrid's Church (York Oratory in Formation). In 2014/2015 he served as the Assistant Organist at St. Paul's Bloor Street, the largest Anglican church in Toronto, where he regularly accompanied the church choir. Previously the organ scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, he accompanied and occasionally directed the choir of that college for their regular services and concerts.

He began musical life aged 5 on the piano, then took up the organ aged 13 and received lessons from Henry Fairs at the Birmingham Conservatoire for five years. Upon reaching Oxford Robert was taught by Stephen Farr and William Whitehead, as well as achieving his ARCO diploma, for which he also won the Sowerbutts Prize and Durrant Prize.

He has had the pleasure of participating in numerous choir concerts and tours, notably at Blackburn Cathedral, Lancaster Priory, Birmingham Cathedral, Ampleforth Abbey, Coventry Cathedral and three times at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Robert regularly performs recitals as well as participating in masterclasses led by David Goode, Guy Bovet and Thomas Trotter. He collaborated with conductor Nicholas Cleobury for a concert recorded by the BBC.

Summer 2014 saw Robert take part in a choir tour of America and this has been followed by four recital tours of Germany, across Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria. His first commercial solo CD The Franz Liszt Memorial Organ in Weimar was released by the German record label JUBAL in April 2015.

Website

Robert Smith at the Jehmlich Organ of the Christuskirche, Dresden

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