CHRISTOPHER OUVRY-JOHNS, organ
Leicester Cathedral
Programme will include music by Cecilia McDowell, Fela Sowande and Felix Mendelssohn.
You may download a poster here; full programme details available nearer the time.
Christopher has been Director of Music at Leicester Cathedral since January 2011. In this capacity he is responsible for the musical provision both at regular choral services and at the many diocesan and civic occasions to which the Cathedral is host. He has twice conducted the Cathedral Choir in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh and for BBC Television’s Easter Sunday broadcast in 2014, which came live from Leicester Cathedral.
He was also responsible for the musical provision at the ceremonies surrounding the Reinterment of King Richard III in the spring of 2015, including the premiere of Judith Bingham’s anthem Ghostly Grace, which, along with other repertoire from those services, was recorded on the CD He lieth under this stone.
He has led workshops on English Church Music in Germany and directed the RSCM Cathedral Course in Rochester in 2016. He is a trustee of the Church Music Society and serves on the committee of the Cathedral Organists’ Association.
Admission free – optional retiring collection.