Concerts organised by B&DOA member Jonathan Price
Celebrity Recital given by
TIMOTHY PARSONS
Director of Music, Wells Cathedral
Wednesday 24th September at 7.30pm
Here is his programme:
- Prélude sur l’Introit de l’Epiphanie – Maurice Duruflé
- Prelude and Fugue in E minor “The Wedge” BWV 458 – J. S. Bach
- Andante sostenuto, from Symphonie Gothique (no. 9) – Charles-Marie Widor
- Choral no. 3 in A minor – César Franck
INTERVAL
- Postlude in D minor Op. 105 No. 6 – Charles Villiers Stanford
- Chanson de matin – Edward Elgar, arr. Herbert Brewer
- Evening Song – Edward Bairstow
- Toccata – John Sanders
- Folk Tune – Percy Whitlock
- Scherzo – Timothy Parsons
- Pomp & Circumstance March no. 4 – Edward Elgar, arr. G. R. Sinclair
There will be a large screen showing all the action.
All tickets £14.00 to include a glass of fine wine
Timothy Parsons took up the position of Director of Music at Wells Cathedral in September 2024, and is also Music Director of the Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society. He has held posts at the cathedrals of Hereford, Winchester, Exeter, and most recently St Edmundsbury, where he was Director of Music from 2021 to 2024. During his time there, the choir toured to France and Germany, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and released a recording, A Year at St Edmundsbury, with the Regent label.
Timothy was a chorister at Guildford Cathedral and organ scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge, graduating with a starred double first in Music in 2014. Whilst at Cambridge he was also organ scholar for King’s Voices, the mixed-voice choir of King’s College Chapel. In 2018 he recorded a disc of organ music at Exeter for Regent Records’ English Cathedral Series, which was praised for its ‘vigour, optimism and supreme self confidence’ (MusicWeb International) and ‘virtuoso command of the organ’ (Organists’ Review). He is an active composer, with his music having been recorded by the choirs of Exeter and St Edmundsbury Cathedrals.
Read the history & specification of the organ on the Christ Church website.