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FREE Informal Organ Recitals
Dates in June & July
Featuring the Cathedral’s resident organists and guests.
Free and un-ticketed, with a retiring collection.
All recitals start at 18:15 in the Cathedral Quire, after 17:30 Evensong.
Friday 4 July
Will Fairbairn, London
See recital programmes in the monthly Services and Music List
Friday 4 July, 18:15
Will Fairbairn, London
William Fairbairn is Assistant Director of Music and Head of Choral at Clifton College, a role he took up in September 2024. Prior to this, he worked at St Paul’s School for 6 years, and was Assistant Director of Music at St Marylebone Parish Church. These two roles incorporated classroom teaching, organ playing and choral direction: areas which form the cornerstones of his role at Clifton.
He held Organ Scholarships at Truro Cathedral, All Saints’ Fulham, and St Catharine’s College Cambridge, where he also studied Music. Whilst there, he was organist for the College Choir and the Girls’ Choir — the first choir to offer girl choristerships in Oxbridge — accompanying them in their weekly round of services. He accompanied both choirs on tours in Europe and the Far East, and for various recordings and broadcasts. He has been the organist for several Rodolfus Choral Courses, and accompanied the Rodulfus BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong broadcast in Summer 2022.
At Truro Cathedral, William gained his FRCO, winning the Harding/Durant and Turpin/Durrant prizes, and the Samuel Baker prize for the highest aggregate mark. William is also artistic director of Coro Spezzato, a vocal group formed in the lockdowns to provide a professional platform for the country’s brightest young singers and composers.
Programme
J S Bach, Prelude and Fugue in E Minor BWV 548
Vaughan Williams arr. James McVinnie, English Folk Song Suite
I. Seventeen come Sunday
II. My bonny boy
III. Folk songs from Somerset
Gibbons, Fantasia in C fa ut
J S Bach, Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn, BWV 630
Gibbons, Fantasia in four parts
J S Bach, Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641
Grainger arr. Stockmeier, Handel in the Strand
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