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FREE Informal Organ Recitals
Dates in April, May & June
Featuring the Cathedral’s resident organists and guests.
Free and un-ticketed, with a retiring collection.
All recitals start at 18:15 in the Cathedral Quire, after 17:30 Evensong.
Friday 2 May
Robin Walker, The King’s School, Canterbury
Friday 6 June
Simon Hogan, Southwark Cathedral
See recital programmes in the monthly Services and Music List
Friday 2 May, 18:15
Robin Walker, The King’s School, Canterbury
Robin Walker studied organ at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and now enjoys a freelance career as soloist, accompanist, conductor and teacher. He has given solo recitals and masterclasses in cathedrals and concert halls across the UK, Europe and the USA, and given more than fifty world-premiere performances.
Robin has released critically acclaimed recordings, tracks from which have been broadcast on Dutch radio and recently on BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week. He has held a number of church music roles, including as Organist of La Badia Fiorentina, Florence’s 10th century Abbey church; Assistant Organist of St George’s Hanover Square in London; and Director of Music of Corpus Christi College Cambridge.
Robin moved to Canterbury in 2023 and took up the one-year appointment as Assistant Organist at Canterbury Cathedral.
For over twenty years Robin has conducted the prize-winning Sevenoaks based Cantate chamber choir and its sister period instrument chamber orchestra Vivace! In the summer of 2024 Robin stepped down from his conductor role with Ipswich Choral Society, on completion of their 200th anniversary season, during which he directed the choir with the Britten Sinfonia in Haydn’s Creation at Snape Maltings.
Robin is an Accredited Teacher for the Royal College of Organists, and organ teacher at The King’s School Canterbury.
Programme
Buxtehude, Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein, BuxWV 210
Frederick Frahm, Babbitt Sonata (World Premiere)
- The Shining Spires of Zenith
- Garden Party
- Babbitt, the Man
Music inspired by the satirical novel ‘Babbitt’, Sinclair Lewis, 1922
Guilmant, March on a theme by Handel, Lift up your heads, Op.15
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