Monthly Saturday morning recitals at Westbury-on-Trym Parish Church, Church Road, BS9 3EQ.
This month’s recital is given by Huw Morgan, Assistant Director Music at All Saints, Clifton. His programme is as follows:
- Fantasia in C minor (BWV 562) – JS Bach (1685-1750)
- Vater unser im Himmelreich – Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
- Repetitive Strain – Avril Anderson (b. 1953)
- Aquamarine – David Sutton-Anderson (1956- )
- Uppon La Mi Re – Thomas Preston (d. 1563)
- Passacaille Dorien – Karen Beaumont (1965 -)
- Exultation – Huw Morgan (1975 -)
Huw Morgan is a graduate of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, where he read music and was organ scholar, and of the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied choral conducting with Patrick Russill, organ with Susan Landale and David Titterington, and voice with David Lowe, winning the Olwen Doreen Leyshon prize. He is currently associate director of music of All Saints, director of the Redland Green Choir and Clifton Singers in Bristol and of Weston Choral Society. He has formerly held posts at Southwark Cathedral, St Laurence Catford, with the RSCM and with His Majesty’s Sagbutts & Cornets.
Huw is deputy editor of Organists’ Review and a founding director of Firehead Organ Works, a transatlantic collective publishing new music for organ; he also performs regular mainly slow organ music concerts in Bristol and beyond exploring new experimental music for the instrument. His own compositions have featured at numerous festivals (including BBC Tectonics, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Bergen International Organ Festival), on radio (Radio 3, and Bristol’s Noods Radio), on various CDs and in venues around the UK, Europe and North America.
www.fireheadorganworks.com/huw-morgan/
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Hot drinks and cake are served from 1030; the music begins at 11.00 and lasts around 40 mins.
A £5 donation on the door is suggested, under 18s free.
This recital series is organised by BDOA member Richard Johnson.