Concert Details
| Title: | Lunchtime Concert St Leonard's Church Seaford. Mark Wardell - Organ |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 13 September 2014, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Organ recital given by Mark Wardell. MARK WARDELL was Assistant Organist at Chichester Cathedral from 1997 ‘til Christmas Day 2009, serving for five of those years as Director of Music at the Prebendal School, the Cathedral’s Choir School. He is currently Director of Music at Barrow Hills School having previously held positions at Royal Holloway College (from which he graduated with the college’s Driver prize for performance, and the University of London’s James Prize for research into the 17th century manuscripts of Durham Cathedral); St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle (which he combined with performance studies at the Royal Academy of Music); and Christ’s Hospital Horsham. His work in Chichester involved him in numerous live BBC broadcasts and recordings, the Southern Cathedrals’ Festival(and it’s ‘fringe’) and the Chichester Festivities. Mark has featured as soloist and accompanist on numerous commercial recordings released through IMP Classics, Carlton, Pickwick, Lammas, Guild and Priory. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost exponents of liturgical improvisation. At a recital in Chatres Cathedral, he concluded his performance with a twenty minute improvisation on the submitted plainsong theme ‘Salve Regina’. He is one of only a handful of British organists ever to have improvised at the end of a live broadcast of Choral Evensong on BBC radio three and in a CD review in The Organ magazine , his performance was described as ‘’English cathedral playing at its very best’’. He has played throughout Europe and South America and has given recitals in most of the major venues in England. In South Africa his engagements included St George’s Cathedral Cape Town, Pieter-maritzburg Cathedral and Town Hall. He continues to have a busy freelance career with recent performances in France and Budapest, as well as giving the celebrity recital at the recent Southern Cathedrals Festival in Chichester. He enjoys close links with the chapel choirs of Lancing College and Charterhouse whom he regularly accompanies. Mark is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists who enjoys playing jazz piano ,fine wines and cooking. |
| Tickets: | Free Admission with a retiring collection. Concert lasts approximately an hour. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
