Recital on the 1728 Hildebrandt Organ: Robert Smith (York Oratory) at St Jacobikirche, Sangerhausen on Friday 10th November 2017

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Recital on the 1728 Hildebrandt Organ

Robert Smith (York Oratory)

Add to my Calendar 10-11-2017 19:00 10-11-2017 21:00 36 Recital on the 1728 Hildebrandt Organ Robert Smith is currently the Assistant Director of Music at the York Oratory (St. Wilfrid's Church). 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 three 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 2015.  Website St Jacobikirche, Sangerhausen DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Jacobikirche
Markt
Sangerhausen
Saxony-Anhalt
06526
Germany

Friday 10th November 2017
7:00 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548
John Dowland – Lachrimae Pavane
William Byrd – The Queenes Alman
Orlando Gibbons – Fantazia of foure parts
Maurice Greene – 12 Organ Voluntaries
Bertie Baigent – Proud rock/bright sky (World Premiere)
Felix Mendelssohn – 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op.37
Samuel Sebastian Wesley – Variations on Rule Britannia, KO 620
Guy Bovet – Trois Préludes Hambourgeois: Salamanca

Performers

Robert Smith – organ

Programme Note

Robert Smith is currently the Assistant Director of Music at the York Oratory (St. Wilfrid's Church). 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 three 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 2015.

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