Concert Details
| Title: | Lunchtime Concert St Leonard's Church Seaford. Alan Thurlow - Organ |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 11 July 2015, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Alan Thurlow was born in Woodford Green, Essex, and attended Bancroft’s School (at his own insistence as it had the attraction of a chapel and an organ!). At the age of eight he joined the choir of St Barnabas’ Church, Woodford, and while still at Bancroft’s he became Organist at St Barnabas, maintaining that position through six subsequent years at university (three at Sheffield University, from where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in Music, followed by three years at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, during which time he edited the complete Latin church music of the prolific early Tudor composer, John Sheppard, and wrote completions of the many tenor parts contained in the missing part-book). In 1973 Alan left Woodford to take up his appointment as Sub Organist of Durham Cathedral. He combined his duties at the Cathedral with the position of Director of Music at The Chorister School and also part-time Lecturer in Music at Durham University. In 1980 he moved south to become Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral in succession to Dr John Birch. At Chichester, he was responsible for forming the committee which raised the money to restore to working use the cathedral’s historic pipe organ, unplayable since 1972. During his years in Chichester he held many outside positions including being President of the Cathedral Organists’ Association and Chairman of the national charities The Friends of Cathedral Music and The On Organ Fund, as well as Chairman of the Organs Advisory Committee of the Council for the Care of Churches. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and of the Royal School of Church Music, and holds Honorary Fellowships from the Guild of Church Musicians and the Guild of Musicians and Singers. In 2005 the Archbishop of Canterbury recognised Alan’s years of service to the choral foundation of Chichester Cathedral by the award of a Lambeth Doctorate in Music. On his retirement in 2008 the Cathedral accorded Alan the title of Organist Emeritus, and he also received a Civic Award from the City of Chichester. He is a member of the Statutory Advisory Committee and the Church Buildings Council of the Church of England as well as Chairman of the Bells Advisory Committee. He is past President of the Incorporated Association of Organists and currently serves as Chairman of the British Institute of Organ Studies. In his spare time his hobbies are walking and cycling; he also enjoys his association with the Chichester City Club (founded by the Cathedral in 1862 for the workmen who came to rebuild the central tower and spire after the disastrous collapse of 1861). Programme Offertorio Jesus Guridi (1886-1961) Three short pieces from the Little Organ Book Paean Philip Moore (b.1943) Cradle Song Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Carnival Thomas Hewitt Jones (b.1984) J.S.Bach and his contemporaries Prelude and Fugue in C major Vincent Lubeck (1656-1740) Two pieces from the Anna Magdalena Clavier Book J.S.Bach (1685-1750) Bist du bei mir Fantasia in C Praeludium in Bb major (molto adagio) Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) Four Sketches for Pedal Piano, Op.58 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) No 1 in C minor No 2 in C major No 3 in F minor No 4 in Db major Final Jesus Guridi (1886-1961) |
| Tickets: | Free Admission with a retiring Collection. Concert lasts approximately an hour. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
