Lunchtime at Redcliffe - Free Organ Concert featuring Oliver Brett

St Mary Redcliffe
Oliver Brett
(Rochester, New York)
Thursday 13 June 2019
1.15-1.55 pm

Born in Kent in the UK in 1985, Oliver Brett was educated as a music and
academic scholar at Tonbridge School and then as organ scholar of King’s
College, Cambridge from where he graduated in 2007 with a degree in music.
Since then, he has held positions at Westminster Cathedral, Durham
Cathedral and St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney. He is currently studying for a
doctorate in organ performance with David Higgs and a masters in
harpsichord performance with William Porter at the Eastman School of Music
in Rochester NY. He also serves as Director of Music at St Anne’s RC Church
and plays the organ for Christ Church’s Schola Cantorum in Rochester. In
October 2017, Oliver was awarded second prize and the Royal Canadian
College of Organists’ Prize at the Canadian International Organ Competition.
Recent engagements over the last year have included concerts in Sydney,
Montreal, Los Angeles, Florida, Austin, Minneapolis, Atlanta and San
Francisco.
Plans for the next year include concerts in Austin, San Francisco, Indiana,
Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York. He will also be competing in the Schnitger
International Organ Competition in the Netherlands and the Mikael
Tariverdiev International Organ Competition in Russia. As a harpsichordist he
will be performing the Goldberg Variations as part of this year’s Rochester
Early Music Festival as well as in Berkeley, CA. This Summer he will also be
performing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Bach’s Double Violin Concerto with
renowned Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty at the Keuka Lake Music Festival in
upstate NY.
Outside of music, Oliver is a passionate runner, having completed several
marathons. He is currently training for his first 50 mile race in October.
For further information about organ recitals in the UK, please visit
Organrecitals.com
www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
0117 231 0060

Oliver Brett
(Rochester, New York)
Thursday 13 June at 1.15pm
Flourish for an Occasion Harris (1883-1973)
Symphony No. 5 in F minor (Allegro vivace) Widor (1844-1937)
Six Studies for Organ Op. 56, No. 4 (Innig) Schumann (1810-1856)
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue Healey Willan (1880-1968)
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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
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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.

The Summer Series continues next week on Thursday 20 June
with Toon Haagen (Netherlands)
- J.S. Bach, Toccata (dorische) und Fuge d-minor BWV 538
- S. ten Holt, Part 1 and 2 of the famous piece Canto Ostinato
(in a transcription for organ from Toon Hagen)
Summer Term 2019
27 Paul Dewhurst Leeds Minster
4 July Colin Andrews USA
11 Hans Hielscher Wiesbaden, Germany
18 Alessandro Bianchi Italy
25 Jean-René André Rennes Cathedral, France
Please turn off mobile phones before the concert begins
Please do not take photos during the performance.
No Recordings can be made of this concert
without the permission of the performers