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| When: | |
Saturday 06 September 2008 at 19:30 |
| Where: | |
St Mary's, Hemel Hempstead |
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| Performers: | |
Nicholas King, organ |
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| Programme : | | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| 1: | | Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 561 |
| Sigfrid Karg-Elert | |
| 2: | | Cathedral Windows, Op 106 |
| César Franck | |
| 3: | | Chorale No 3 in A minor |
| Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck | |
| 4: | | Fantasia Chromatica, 'Dorian' |
| Louis Vierne | |
| 5: | | Bérceuse from '24 Pièces en style libre', Op 31 |
| Robert Schumann | |
| 6: | | Fugue No 1 from '6 Fugues on B-A-C-H', Op 60 |
| 7: | | Fugue No 2 from '6 Fugues on B-A-C-H', Op 60 |
| Franz Liszt | |
| 8: | | Prelude and Fugue on BACH |
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| Note: | |
Nicholas King's musical interests were fostered in his early years as a choirboy at Folkestone Parish Church. As a Music Scholar at The King's School, Canterbury, he studied piano with the late Ronald Smith and organ with Allan Wicks, taking his FRCO as a prizeman whilst still at school. From 1968 to 1972 he was Organ Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, taking a first in his degree and the University's John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship in Sacred Music, as well as acting as locum Organist at Coventry Cathedral and Canterbury Cathedral during summer periods. He was appointed Organist & Choirmaster at Folkestone Parish Church from 1972 to 1979, and was Head of Music at Maidstone Grammar School and at Folkestone Grammar School for Girls. He became Director of Music at Hemel Hempstead School in 1979, and Assistant Director of Studies at the Royal College of Music in 1984, where he was promoted to the post of Vice-Director & Director of Studies in 1988. Fellowship of the Royal College of Music was conferred in 1992 by its then President, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, for services to music education. Since 1982 he had also examined for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, including work as a trainer, moderator, member of Examinations Board and direct involvement in syllabus development. From January 1998 until February 2002 he held the post of Chief Examiner in Music for Trinity College London. He is now concentrating on freelance performance, teaching, adjudicating, composition and research. Nicholas King has maintained an active recital career, including recordings and BBC broadcasts. He has researched and performed most of the organ works of the elusive French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, issuing a CD on the Symposium label in December 1999. He is Secretary and Vice-President of the Alkan Society, and Patron of the The New School of Organ Studies. In the latter capacity he has created and developed since 2002 a successful series of Friday lunchtime concerts at St John’s, Boxmoor, his home parish in Hemel Hempstead, where he was appointed as Director of Music in January 2006, and where he is also training as a Reader. Later this summer he performs in the Levoca Festival in Slovakia, amongst several other engagements. |
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Free admission (Retiring collection) |
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| Venue: | |
St Mary's High Street Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire England |
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