St Mary Redcliffe Free Organ Concert - September 13 2018 (Andrew Millington)

St Mary Redcliffe
Andrew Millington
(Exeter)
Thursday 13 September 2018
1.15-1.55 pm

Andrew Millington Andrew Millington’s career in Cathedral music has
spanned some forty years, most recently as Director of Music at Exeter
Cathedral (1999-2015). He studied the organ at Worcester Cathedral before
gaining an Organ Scholarship to Downing College, Cambridge. In 1975 he
became Assistant Organist at Gloucester Cathedral where he was closely
involved with The Three Choirs Festival. He held the conductorship of several
notable choirs in the Midlands, two of which won major awards in the BBC
competition “Let the Peoples Sing”.
In 1983 he succeeded Philip Moore as Organist and Master of the Choristers
at Guildford Cathedral. His work with the Guildford choir over a period of 16
years included foreign tours to European countries and North America,
numerous recordings and an appearance at the BBC Promenade Concerts. In
addition to his Cathedral duties, he was closely involved with the Guildford
International Music Festival, conductor of Bracknell Choral Society, Diocesan
Organs Advisor and Chairman of the RSCM Guildford Area.
He has worked with several leading orchestras and he is well known as a
recitalist. He has made several recordings as an organ soloist, including a
highly-acclaimed DVD on the organ of Exeter Cathedral. He has played in
most of the major venues in the UK, and in 1995 was organist for the Festival
of Remembrance in the Royal Albert Hall. He is an examiner for The
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and a past President of the
Cathedral Organists’ Association.
Since his arrival at Exeter, his work with the Cathedral Choir has included
several broadcasts and recordings and highly successful tours of Russia,
France, Norway and USA. He has been awarded honorary diplomas by the
Guild of Church Musicians and the Royal School of Church Music. In 2003, he
was appointed Director of Music of Exeter Philharmonic Choir and has
conducted them in many of the major choral/orchestral works. His final
performance with the choir was Elgar`s The Dream of Gerontius in 2017. He is
the Honorary President of the St Cecilia Singers of Gloucester, Exmouth
Choral Society and Axminster and District Choral Society. He is an active
composer of church music and has had many works published.
In 2015 he stepped down from his post at Exeter Cathedral in order to pursue
freelance musical activities and much neglected hobbies.

Andrew Millington
(Exeter)
Thursday 13 September at 1.15pm
Dankpsalm
Larghetto in F sharp minor
M Reger
SS Wesley
Marche Heroique
H Brewer
Forlana (arr. R Gower)
G Finzi
Impromptu (Pièces de Fantaisie)
L Vierne
Fantasia and Fugue in G
CHH Parry
Parry: Chora
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The Autumn Series continues on Thursday 20 September
Charles Matthews (Chipping Campden)
Charles Spinks (1916-92) Toccata (1934)
Benjamin Dale (1885-1943) Sonata in D minor (1900)
Allegro; Andante con grazia; Allegro moderato
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) Prelude and Fugue in G minor, op.7, no.3 (1912)
Autumn Term 2018
27 Jonathan Clinch Royal College of Music
4 Oct Timothy Noon Exeter Cathedral
11 Alison Howell/Andrew Kirk Bristol
18 Simon Headley Leicester Cathedral
25 Anthony Hammond Cirencester
1 Nov Derek Grover Sheffield
8 Jonathan Price Bristol
15 Matthew Brown St Mary Redcliffe
22 Simon Hogan Southwell Minster
29 Richard Morgan Fishponds
6 Dec Paul Walton Bristol Cathedral
13 Andrew Kirk St Mary Redcliffe
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Please do not take photos during the performance.
No Recordings can be made of this concert
without the permission of the performers