Lunchtime at Redcliffe - Free Organ Recital featuring Lee Dunleavy

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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 Organrecitals.com 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
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