Concert Details
| Title: | St Leonard's Church Seaford Lunchtime Concert. Joshua Ryan, Organ |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 15 March 2025, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Lunchtime Organ Recital given by Joshua Ryan. Concert lasts approximately an hour. Programme Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 J. S. Bach Prelude on Rhosymedre Ralph Vaughan Williams Air, from Orchestral Suite in D major BWV 1068 J. S. Bach Selections from the Eleven Chorale Preludes Op. 122 Johannes Brahms No. 2 Herzliebster Jesu No. 3 O Welt, ich muss dich lassen No. 6 O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen No. 11 O Welt, ich muss dich lassen O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross BWV 622 J. S. Bach Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 J. S. Bach Finale from Symphonie No. 1. Op. 14 Louis Vierne 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. 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. The focal point of this project is a collection of recordings exploring different interpretations of little-known works by early English composers. For more information you can visit themullinerproject.com to read about and listen to the project. Throughout his studies and career Joshua has received numerous prizes and awards. He is a Bicentenary Scholar of the Royal Academy of Music, a holder of the prestigious DipRAM award, one of only two organists to receive The University of Sydney’s University Medal, a Tait Memorial Trust awardee, and an Australia Council for the Arts awardee. For more information and recordings please visit joshua-ryan.co.uk |
| Tickets: | Admission Free with a retiring collection. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
