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St Mary <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />
<strong>Samuel</strong> <strong>Ali</strong><br />
(Royal College of Music)<br />
Thursday 28 February 2019<br />
1.15-1.55 pm
<strong>Samuel</strong> <strong>Ali</strong> was born in 1990 in Gravesend, Kent, and has Turkish and Italian<br />
heritage.<br />
He is a second-year master’s student <strong>at</strong> the Royal College of Music where he<br />
studies the organ <strong>with</strong> David Graham, Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin<br />
and Andrew Dewar. He also studies improvis<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>with</strong> Sophie-Véronique and<br />
continuo <strong>with</strong> Robert Woolley. He is the organist <strong>at</strong> Christ Church in Chelsea<br />
where is responsible for all the organ playing <strong>at</strong> the church and accompanies<br />
the choir and liturgy each week.<br />
In 2018 <strong>Samuel</strong> gave an all-Bach recital as part of London Bach Society’s<br />
Bachfest and also performed Poulenc’s organ concerto <strong>at</strong> the RCM. This year,<br />
he will perform in Moscow (representing the RCM) and give recitals as part of<br />
three organ festivals in Slovakia this summer. In September he will undertake<br />
one further year’s study <strong>at</strong> the RCM on the Artists Diploma course—the first<br />
organist to do so.<br />
Before moving back to the Southeast in 2017, <strong>Samuel</strong> completed his BMus <strong>at</strong><br />
the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester <strong>with</strong> Darius B<strong>at</strong>tiwalla,<br />
and before th<strong>at</strong> held the organ scholarship <strong>at</strong> Rochester C<strong>at</strong>hedral.<br />
The Friends of C<strong>at</strong>hedral Music have organised a visit to Clifton College<br />
followed by evensong <strong>at</strong> the C<strong>at</strong>hedral on S<strong>at</strong>urday March 16. The day starts<br />
<strong>at</strong> 12.15pm <strong>with</strong> College <strong>Organ</strong>ist James Drinkw<strong>at</strong>er talking about music <strong>at</strong><br />
the college, followed by a short organ recital. Evensong <strong>at</strong> Bristol C<strong>at</strong>hedral is<br />
<strong>at</strong> 3.30pm, after which Mark Lee (<strong>Organ</strong>ist and Master of Choristers) will give<br />
a short talk covering highlights of this year's music and progress on the organ<br />
restor<strong>at</strong>ion. The FCM Diocesan Represent<strong>at</strong>ive David Tiley can give you more<br />
detailed inform<strong>at</strong>ion Tel: 0117-9322408, email: dttiley@btinternet.com
<strong>Samuel</strong> <strong>Ali</strong><br />
(Royal College of Music)<br />
Thursday 28 February <strong>at</strong> 1.15pm<br />
Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH (1714-1788)<br />
Son<strong>at</strong>a in F major Wq. 70/3, H. 84<br />
Allegro — Largo — Allegretto<br />
Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)<br />
from Eleven Chorale Preludes Op. 122<br />
-Herzlich tut mich verlangen no. 2<br />
-Herzlich tut mich erfreuen<br />
Johann Sebastian BACH tr. Max REGER (1873-1916)<br />
Prelude and Fugue in B-fl<strong>at</strong> minor BWV 867 (WTC I)<br />
Johann Sebastian BACH tr. Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)<br />
Sinfonia from Cant<strong>at</strong>a 29 ‘Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir' BWV 29<br />
For further inform<strong>at</strong>ion about organ recitals in the UK, please visit<br />
<strong>Organ</strong>recitals.com<br />
www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk<br />
0117 231 0060<br />
COULD YOU DONATE USING GIFT AID?<br />
If you are a UK Tax Payer, please would you consider gift-aiding your don<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
<strong>at</strong> the end of the recital? We are able to claim back 25p in every £1.<br />
Envelopes and pens available <strong>at</strong> the back of church.<br />
A don<strong>at</strong>ion of £5 <strong>with</strong> gift aid would be worth £6.25 to us,<br />
A don<strong>at</strong>ion of £4 would be worth £5.
The Spring Series continues next week on Thursday 7 March<br />
Pavlos Triantaris (Bristol)<br />
J.S. Bach: Tocc<strong>at</strong>a and Fugue BWV 565, in D minor =<br />
Percy Whitlock: "Allegro Risoluto" from the Plymouth Suite<br />
J.S. Bach: Chorale prelude "Erbarm Dich mein, o Herre Gott" BWV 721<br />
Nikos Skalkottas: "Epirotikos" from 5 Greek Dances for Orchestra<br />
<strong>Samuel</strong> Barber: "Agnus Dei" (arr. from String Quartet Op. 11)<br />
Louis Vierne: Tocc<strong>at</strong>a in B fl<strong>at</strong> minor Op. 53 #6<br />
Spring Term 2019<br />
14 Graham Alsop St Mary <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />
21 Richard Walker St Chad’s Shrewsbury<br />
28 Andrew Kirk St Mary <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />
4 Apr <strong>Samuel</strong> Bristow Birmingham<br />
11 Martyn Rawles Lichfield C<strong>at</strong>hedral<br />
Please turn off mobile phones before the concert begins<br />
Please do not take photos during the performance.<br />
No Recordings can be made of this concert<br />
<strong>with</strong>out the permission of the performers
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