Biography
Alongside his work at the house, Edward is the Senior Organ Scholar at Keble College, Oxford, accompanying the college choir for their weekly services. He is also organist to Campion Hall, Oxford. Ed is an undergraduate in his final year of a Music degree. A keen singer, he is a part of the early music ensemble, Antiquum Documentum, for whom he also plays the organ. He studies conducting with Will Dawes and organ with Stephen Farr and David Ponsford, as part of the Oxford-RAM scheme. He is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists.
Before going up to Oxford, he spent a year at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Anne Page and David Titterington. Ed grew up in Sevenoaks, attending St Luke’s, and began his organ studies with Peter Young. He was later a music scholar at The King’s School, Canterbury, where he studied the organ with Adrian Bawtree.
He has upcoming recitals at Hampstead Parish Church, St Michael’s Church, Croydon and Keble College, Oxford, and will be training the chorus and playing continuo for upcoming performances of Haydn’s Paukenmesse on the 2nd/3rd November at St John the Evangelist Cowley, and in the context of the Mass at Pusey House the following day. The performances are a collaboration between the Oxford Baroque Players and The Choir of Pusey House, Oxford, with soloists drawn in part from Pusey choir alumni.
Programme
I: Allegro Maestoso from Sonata No. 1 in G major (Op. 28)
Edward Elgar (1857 - 1943)
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Three Preludes on French Hymns
Derek Healey (b. 1936)
I: Christe Sanctorum
II: Picardy
III: O Quanta Qualia
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Folk Tune from Five Short Pieces
Percy Whitlock (1903 - 1946)
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Two pieces from Sept Pieces (Op. 27)
I: Souvenir
VII: Final
Marcel Dupré (1886 -1971)
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A Fancy
William Byrd (d. 1623)
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