Mayfair Organ Concert: Tom Winpenny

Today's Mayfair Organ Concert is given by Tom Winpenny (St Albans), who will be performing the following programme:

Muffat - Toccata Decima
JS Bach - Aria in F BWV 587
de Grigny - Offertoire sur les grands jeux
Bonis - Offertoire (Quasi andante) Op. 52
Langlais - Chant Heroïque
Gerald Hendrie - Pastorale (2017)
Emma Lou Diemer - Toccata (1864)

Admission is free with a retiring collection.

Tom Winpenny is a freelance organist and choral director and recently completed sixteen years working as Assistant Master of the Music and Director of the Cathedral Girls Choir at St Albans Cathedral. He studied as Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he played twice for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast internationally. He was subsequently Sub-Organist at St Paul's Cathedral, London, where he played for many great state occasions. He has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio and has been featured on American Public Media's Pipedreams. In recent years he has performed throughout Europe, the United States and the UK at venues including St Stephen’s Cathedral (Vienna), Hallgrímskirkja (Reykjavík), Cathedral of the Madeleine (Salt Lake City), Hamburg Mariendom, and Kalmar Cathedral (Sweden). His many solo organ recordings include surveys of composers including Judith Bingham, Malcolm Williamson, John Joubert, Elisabeth Lutyens, and Francis Pott’s monumental organ symphony Christus. For Naxos he has recorded five critically-acclaimed volumes of music by Olivier Messiaen. His most recent releases for the same label include the complete organ works of Robert Schumann and Edward Elgar, the latter being selected as a Critic’s Choice in Gramophone magazine. His recordings as choral director include discs for Naxos of sacred music by Elizabeth Poston, Felix Mendelssohn, Michael Haydn and William Mathias. He is a trustee of the Royal College of Organists. www.tomwinpenny.org 

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