Lunchtime at Redcliffe - Free organ recital featuring Richard Walker

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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 COULD YOU DONATE USING GIFT AID? If you are a UK Tax Payer, please would you consider gift-aiding your donation at the end of the recital? We are able to claim back 25p in every £1. Envelopes and pens available at the back of church. A donation of £5 with gift aid would be worth £6.25 to us, A donation of £4 would be worth £5.
Richard Walker (St Chad, Shrewsbury) Thursday 21 March at 1.15pm Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538 (The Dorian) Bach (1685 - 1750) Two Choral Improvisations for Lent Karg-Elert (1877 – 1933) An Wasserflüssen Babylon, Op 65 No 12 Herzlich tut mich verlange, Op 65 No 16 (in canon at various intervals) Academic Festival Overture Cascades - a Rag Handel in the Strand Brahms (1833 - 1897) arr Lemare Scott Joplin (1868 - 1917) arr. E.Power Biggs Grainger (1882 - 1961) arr W.Stockmeier For further information about organ recitals in the UK, please visit Organrecitals.com www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 0117 231 0060
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