11:30 Celebrity Organ Recital: Andrew Cantrill

Andrew Cantrill
Monday 25th May 2015

Bank Holiday Celebrity Organ Recital

11:30, Monday 25th May: Andrew Cantrill, Personal Website.

We are very pleased to welcome Andrew Cantrill to Bromley Parish Church. 

Entrance is by programme at a cost of £8;
thisincludes refreshments served from 11:00

Andrew is one of the UK’s most experienced and versatile church musicians. His career has taken him to three continents, working in schools, churches and cathedrals, and he has appeared in some of the world’s most prestigious venues as conductor, organist and singer.  He is a Fellow, prize winner, and recent Trustee Council member of the Royal College of Organists, tutor for the RCO Academy Organ School, an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, and organist of The Royal Hospital School, Holbrook.

Andrew was educated at Reigate Grammar School, Barnard Castle School and Durham University, and has studied the organ with Lady Susi Jeans, Peter Wright, James Lancelot and Gerre Hancock.  Appointed Master of the Choristers at Grimsby Parish Church at the age of just 23, Andrew went on to hold similar positions at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, New Zealand, St Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo, NY, USA, and Croydon Minster, London. He now freelances from his home in Suffolk and enjoys a busy career of concerts, teaching and examining.

During his time in New Zealand, Andrew broadcast on Concert FM (Radio NZ), and appeared regularly as soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. His recording of virtuoso French organ music from Wellington Cathedral ‘Fete’ attracted much critical acclaim:

 “This is music to convert the stoniest of hearts to the cause of the French organ school and Cantrill presents it all so fetchingly… he is a formidable musician, and his feeling for timbre and texture makes the CD just so inviting.” (NZ Herald)

Programme

Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)
        Praeludium in E Minor

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
        Unter der linden grüne

Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
        Vater unser im Himmelreich

Claude Balbastre (1724-1799)
        Marche des Marseillois et l’Air Ça-ira

Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
        Pastorale

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
        L'Egyptienne

Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
        Allegro Giocoso

Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
        Evening Song
        Allegro Giocoso (Sonata in E Flat)

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