Lunchtime at Redcliffe - Free organ recital featuring Richard Walker

Richard Walker is Assistant Director of Music at St Chad’s Church,
Shrewsbury, where he accompanies most of the major services, organises the
55 lunch-hour concerts each year and gives regular recitals, including two
performances of Bach’s complete organ works in recent years.
Richard studied organ with David Willcocks, gaining both ARCO and FRCO
diplomas in the same year, and both with prizes.
His career has been largely in teaching, first at The Edinburgh Academy, and
then as Director of Music successively at Daniel Stewart’s and Melville College
Edinburgh (1975 – 80), The Leys School Cambridge (1980 – 85), and Harrow
School (1985 – 2005). He was also Assistant Organist at St Mary’s Episcopal
Cathedral Edinburgh and subsequently Organist at St John’s, Princes Street,
Edinburgh. Apart from his organ playing, Richard conducts the Phoenix
Singers of Shrewsbury, is part of a piano duo and a regular piano accompanist.
This is his 3 rd recital at St Mary Redcliffe
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at the end of the recital? We are able to claim back 25p in every £1.
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A donation of £5 with gift aid would be worth £6.25 to us,
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