Music in the University
Date: Friday 25 February 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Category: Concerts and music, Social events

PROGRAMME:

Trumpet Tune - Frederick Swann (b 1931)

Prelude on Wir glauben all in einen Gott - Heinrich Scheidemann (ca. 1595 – 1663)

Prelude and Fugue in G - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Trois Pièces - Gabriel Pierné (1863 – 1937)

Peaceful Waves - Ad Wammes (b 1953)

The Wild Reeds - Judith Weir (b 1954)

Wildfire Toccata - Aaron Shows (b 1989)

Gordon Stewart was born in Scotland and after studies in Manchester and Geneva with Gillian Weir, Eric Chadwick and Lionel Rogg, he was for 15 years a cathedral organist, first in Manchester then in Blackburn. For 30 years he was Borough Organist of Kirklees where he played regular concerts on the 1860 Father Willis organ in Huddersfield Town Hall. He is now Organist Emeritus.

He has recorded on organs in the UK and in South Africa on the Priory, Dolcan and Lammas labels and has played concertos with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Northern Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North and Orchestra Victoria. For over 20 years he broadcast regularly as organist and conductor on BBC radio and television, chiefly as a musical director on Daily Service, Sunday Half Hour and Songs of Praise.

Gordon’s repertoire is large and covers all the major schools of organ composition. He is well-known as a teacher and taught for several years at the Royal Northern College of Music, then at Cambridge University, teaching the organ scholars at, amongst others, King’s, St John’s and Jesus Colleges. He has appeared as visiting tutor at courses for the Royal College of Organists, Oundle Organ Week, Gothenburg Organ Academy and Shenandoah Church Music Institute in Virginia.

Gordon has played concerts throughout the UK including Celebrity Concerts at St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral, throughout Europe, and in the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Gordon is a former president of the Incorporated Association of Organists. He has been awarded honorary fellowships by the Royal College of Organists, the Royal School of Church Music and the Guild of Church Musicians, and an honorary doctorate by the University of Huddersfield.

JUST TURN UP!

Thanks to UofG Organist Kevin Bowyer for programming our acclaimed organ series.