Lunchtime at Redcliffe - Free Organ Recital featuring Lee Dunleavy

St Mary Redcliffe
Lee Dunleavy
(Wellingborough)
Thursday 12 September 2019
1.15-1.55 pm

Lee Dunleavy is a dynamic conductor, organ recitalist and composer. He grew
up in Harrogate and held the Organ Scholarship at St Peter’s Church, under
Director of Music Philip Wilby. He then read Music at Hertford College in the
University of Oxford, as Organ Scholar and later Director of Chapel Music.
After working as Director of Music at Christ Church, Southgate, London, he
was awarded the Organ Scholarship at York Minster. He holds both the
Choral Directing Diploma and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists,
and is a prize-winning holder of the Archbishops’ Certificate in Church Music.
From 2006 to 2014 Lee held the position of Director of Music at the
prominent church of All Saints Northampton, leading nearly one hundred
members of their separate choirs of boys, girls and men, in seven choral
services each week. In 2007 he was appointed Musical Director of the
Northampton Bach Choir. With these choirs he has commissioned over
seventy new works, including compositions by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett,
Stephen Cleobury, Jonathan Dove, Michael Finnissy, Stephen Hough, and
James MacMillan. The choirs have also toured extensively, from Canada and
the United States to Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland,
and Italy. These choirs have also made nearly a dozen recordings, most
recently Requiem Reflections, a disc of choral and instrumental works by
Gabriel Fauré.
He is also an active composer and his studies at university led to the award of
a Britten-Pears Scholarship to study with Judith Weir; this in turn led to the
commissioning and performance of his first Piano Quintet at the Purcell Room
at the South Bank Centre, London. He recently completed an arrangement of
the National Anthem that was first performed in the presence of Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
For further information about organ recitals in the UK, please visit
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www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
0117 231 0060

Lee Dunleavy
(Wellingborough)
Thursday 12 September at 1.15pm
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) –
Prelude and Fughetta in D major (1859)
Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (1883-1951) –
Notturno in C sharp minor (1942)
Bedřich Smetana (1824-84) tr. Adrian Self –
Vtava from Má vlast (1874)
The composition describes the course of the river Vltava, starting from
the two small springs, the Cold and Warm Vltava, to the unification of
both streams into a single current, the course of the Vltava through
woods and meadows, through landscapes where a farmer's wedding is
celebrated, the round dance of the mermaids in the night's moonshine:
on the nearby rocks loom proud castles, palaces and ruins aloft. The
Vltava swirls into the St John’s Rapids; then it widens and flows toward
Prague, past the Vyšehrad, and then majestically vanishes into the
distance, ending at the Elbe in Germany.
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

Our Autumn Series continues on Thursday 19 September
with Andrew Millington (Exeter)
Grand March from `Aida`
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537
Tuba Tune
Master Tallis`s Testament
Sonata Eroica
G Verdi arr c Morris
JS Bach
N Cocker
H Howells
J Jongen
Autumn Term 2019
26 Oliver Hancock St Mary’s Warwick
3 Oct Stephen Disley Southwark Cathedral
10 Douglas Bruce Schopfheim, Germany
17 Thomas Keogh Holy Cross Priory, Leicester
24 Liam Cartwright All Saints, High Wycombe
31 James Parsons Royal College of Organists
7 Nov David Butcher Suffolk
14 Michael Overbury Newark
21 Elin Rees Bury Parish Church
28 Jonathan Bielby Organist Emeritus, Wakefield
5 Dec Andrew Kirk St Mary Redcliffe (Treefest)
12 Andrew Kirk St Mary Redcliffe
Save the Date!
St Cecilia’s Day Concert - Friday 22 November at 7.30pm
David Briggs (Organ) with St Mary Redcliffe Choir
To include Widor’s Mass for Choir and Organ