Christchurch Lunchtime Organ Recitals Thursday 8th October at 12.30

SCOTT FARRELL (Rochester )

Free Admission • Retiring Collection

Programme

Con Moto Maestoso (Sonata 3) Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847

Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (BWV 731) Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

Allegro (Symphonie VI) Charles-Marie Widor 1844-1937

Berceuse Louis Vierne 1870-1937

Mars the bringer of war (The Planets) Gustav Holst 1874-1934

Light lunches, and refreshments are available in Priory House before and after the recitals.

NEXT RECITAL: 15th October 12.30 p.m.

Alexander Binns ()

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Today’s performer

Scott Farrell was born in Dover in 1971 and was educated at Dover for Boys. At the age of fourteen Scott took up his first church appointment and whilst still at school was awarded the Associateship of the Royal College of . In 1989 Scott went up to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London) as to read music. Upon graduation, Scott pursued postgraduate studies at the Institute of Education (University of London) combining this with the position of Assistant at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge. In August 1993 Scott took up the full time post of Assistant Director of Music at St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Suffolk moving in January 1999 to to work alongside Paul Trepte. Whilst at Ely, he recorded and toured widely with the Cathedral and outside the Cathedral was also Musical Director of Ely Choral Society and the Ely Consort as well as appearing regularly with the Britten Sinfonia. In September 2002, Scott left Ely to take up the position of Organist and Master of the Music at the Cathedral Church of St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne. During his time there, the Choir recorded four compact discs to critical acclaim, made a welcome return to the broadcast evensong schedule on Radio 3 and regularly performed with artists such as the Northern Sinfonia under Sir Roger Norrington and Simon Halsey, Fine Arts Brass, Julian Lloyd Webber, the legendary jazz saxophonist Peter King and the Mediaeval Baebes. Since August 2008, Scott has held the post of Director of Music & Organist at Rochester Cathedral, the second most ancient Cathedral foundation in the UK. Here, Scott is responsible for all music in the Cathedral and most especially the direction and training of the boy choristers. The Choir are frequent broadcasters on television, Radio 3 and Classic FM and have released three discs, “Sing Alleluia”, “Christmas from Rochester” and most recently “A Year at Rochester” to be joined this autumn by a further two disc, Evensong for Remembrance and James Taylor’s Rochester Mass. The choir have toured widely and in the last few years have twice been guests of the Victoria International Arts Festival in Malta, have also taken part in the Internationale Chorbiennale, Aachen, Germany and most recently visited Holland. Recent concerts have seen the choir join forces with English Touring Opera, London Concertante, The King’s Singers, The Sixteen and most notably, James Taylor Quartet in the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Christchurch Priory Church

Organ Recitals Thursdays at 12.30 pm

Alexander Binns October 15th Southwark Cathedral

Simon Earl October 22nd Christchurch Priory

David Davies October 29th

Timothy Ravalde November 5th

Daniel Justin November 12th St Cathedral, Norwich

Richard Pinel November 19th St George’s , Windsor Castle

Geoffrey Morgan November 26th Christchurch Priory

Ben Sheen January 28th 2016 St Thomas, 5th Avenue, new York

Geoffrey Morgan February 4th Christchurch Priory

Norman Harper February 11th St George’s Cathedral, Southwark

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 40-minutes of varied music on our magnificent 4000-. Performer on view.

 Lunches and light refreshments available 10.00am-4.00pm.

 Admission free; retiring collection www.organrecitals.com/christchurch