Details
Maria-Magdalenen-Kirche
Martin-Luther-Straße
Templin
Brandenburg
17268
Germany
Programme
Antonio Soler – 6 Concertos for Two Organs
William Byrd – My Lady Nevels Grownde
Thomas Tomkins – Fancy for Two to Play
George Frideric Handel – Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 292
Nicolaus Bruhns – Praeludium in E minor 'Little'
Kenneth Leighton – Martyrs: Dialogues on a Scottish Psalm-tune, Op 73
Donnacha Dennehy – Work for Organ (1992)
Bertie Baigent – Proud rock/bright sky (World Premiere)
Max Reger – Variations and Fugue on 'God Save the King'
Performers
Robert Smith – organ
Joseph Bradley – organ
Programme Note
Joseph Bradley, organ
Originally from Lanarkshire, Scotland, Joseph Bradley began his organ studies with David Adams at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. He studied Musicology specialising in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century English Sacred Music at Trinity College, The University of Dublin where he was also the University Organ Scholar. In his second year of study at Trinity College he founded the Dublin Early Music Society and was the Chairman of the Dublin University Music Society.
Joseph is in demand both as an ensemble player and a soloist. He has performed throughout Ireland and recent European recitals include Frankfurt, London, Dublin, Vienna, Venice, and Berlin. He is currently the Organ Scholar to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin and studies with the organist and composer David Bremner.
Robert Smith, 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 two 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.