Eric Thompson Trust Organ Recital: Robert Smith (York Oratory) at St Lawrence Jewry Church, London on Tuesday 22nd October 2019

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Eric Thompson Trust Organ Recital

Robert Smith (York Oratory)

Add to my Calendar 22-10-2019 13:00 22-10-2019 15:00 36 Eric Thompson Trust Organ Recital Robert Smith is currently the Assistant Director of Music of 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 five 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 St Lawrence Jewry Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Lawrence Jewry Church
Guildhall Yard
City of London
London
EC2V 5AA
England

Tuesday 22nd October 2019
1:00 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548
George Frideric Handel – Suite no.5: Air and Variations 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'
Joseph Jongen – Pensée d'Automne
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 Director of Music of 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 five 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 Christuskirche, Dresden (Germany)

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