Recital on the 1967/2005 Schuke Organ at Fürstenwalde Cathedral, Fürstenwalde/Spree on Sunday 29th July 2018

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Recital on the 1967/2005 Schuke Organ

Add to my Calendar 29-07-2018 17:00 29-07-2018 19:00 36 Recital on the 1967/2005 Schuke 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 Fürstenwalde Cathedral, Fürstenwalde/Spree DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Fürstenwalde Cathedral
Domplatz 10
Fürstenwalde/Spree
Brandenburg
15517
Germany

Sunday 29th July 2018
5:00 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Rhosymedre
Charles Villiers Stanford – Fantasia and Toccata, Op.57
Edmund Rubbra – Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott, Op.69
Herbert Howells – Saraband (in modo elegiaco)
Olivier Messiaen – Le banquet céleste
Arvo Pärt – Annum per annum
Bertie Baigent – A quiet pavan, with canons
Donnacha Dennehy – Work for Organ (1992)
Zsolt Gárdonyi – Mozart Changes

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 (Hildebrandt Organ in Sangerhausen, Germany)

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