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Our 2024-2025 series of Lunchtime Organ Music opens this Friday, 13th September, with a recital by our Organist & Director of Music, Alexander Woodrow. ORGAN RECITAL by ALEXANDER WOODROW1.00pm – 1.45pm on Friday 13th SeptemberAdmission free, with retiring collection. Big-screen console projection. Refreshments and sandwiches available in the Minster Cafe from 12.30pm, by donation. All are very welcome.Alex will play:Carillon | Herbert MurrillGaitilla de mano izquierda | Sebastián DurónAndante Sostenuto | Edwin George MonkIntermezzo from Symphonie VI | Charles-Marie WidorGreensleeves | Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Stanley RoperToccata in G | Theodore DuboisAlexander Woodrow has been the Organist & Director of Music at Leeds Minster since February 2020. At the Minster, he oversees the training and development of the Minster Choir in resourcing three choral services each week, as well as curating a weekly recital series featuring the church’s celebrated Harrison & Harrison organ. He is also Director of Music of two chamber choirs – the St Peter’s Singers of Leeds, and the Huddersfield Singers – and is Accompanist to the Wakefield-based Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir.Alex’s musical career has encompassed positions at Guildford Cathedral, St Albans Cathedral, and Hexham Abbey, and between 2012 and 2016 he served as the youngest cathedral organist in the country, working as the Organist & Director of Music at Bradford Cathedral, while also running the choral music at Bradford Grammar School. A few years in the West Midlands followed, including a stint as Head of Choral Music at Solihull School.Alex read Music as Organ Scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge, studying with Anne Page. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists at the age of 19, winning first prizes in all categories, including the Limpus Prize. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College London, and a recipient of the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.Alex has broadcast on BBC Radio and Television with the Choir of Bradford Cathedral, Solihull School Chapel Choir and the Choir of Leeds Minster. He has been Organist for five programmes of BBC Songs of Praise, and directed the music for the BBC 1 Easter Day Eucharist, televised live from Leeds Minster in April 2022. He remains busy as a popular organ recitalist, playing recitals around the country.For further information, please visit: www.alexanderwoodrow.co.uk
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