Concert Details
| Title: | St Leonard's Church Seaford Lunchtime Concert. Joshua Ryan, Organ |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 20 April 2024, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Lunchtime Organ recital lasting approximately an hour given by Joshua Ryan. Programme Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major BWV 552 George Frideric Handel Minuet from Berenice Aria from Concerto Grosso No. 12 Edward Elgar Nimrod from Enigma Variations op. 36 Charles-Marie Widor Symphonie Romane Op 73 Moderato Choral Cantilène Final Australian organist, collaborative pianist, and conductor Joshua Ryan is a prizewinning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. He is Organist and Assistant Director of Music of Hampstead Parish Church, Organist of St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate (the National Musician’s Church), accompanist of Dulwich Choral Society, and pursues a busy portfolio career alongside these positions. He is establishing himself as one of his generation’s most exciting and dynamic musicians. His recordings and live performances have been lauded as “impeccable” (British Music Society), “beautiful, wonderful, and full of colour” (BBC Radio 3), and “offers great clarity and panache” (Music Web International). Joshua’s musical interests are diverse and wide ranging. He has worked across Europe and Australia as a soloist, collaborative pianist, and continuo player with a vast array of conductors, singers, choirs, and ensembles including the BBC Singers, Academy of Ancient Music, London Mozart Players, Hampstead Collective, Sydney Chamber Choir, Allegri Ensemble, Philippe Herreweghe, John Butt, Edward Gardner, William Vann, Iain Ledingham, Rachel Podger, Margaret Faultless, Eamonn Dougan, Nicky Spence, Thomas Hobbs, and Nicholas Mullroy. Joshua has also featured on four critically acclaimed discs of music by Vaughan Williams, Elgar, and Holst as the accompanist with the Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and William Vann recorded for the SOMM and Albion labels. In early 2024, he recorded a fifth disc with the BBC Singers featuring previously unrecorded choral works by English composer Michael Berkeley. Alongside Joshua’s performing, he is also a musical researcher. He is the curator of The Mulliner Project, a significant research project on the reinterpretation of the music of The Mulliner Book on a range of historical and modern instruments. For more information you can visit themullinerproject.com to read about and listen to the project. For more information and recordings please visit joshua-ryan.co.uk |
| Tickets: | Admission Free with a retiring collection. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
