Matthew Martin

Saturday 14th May 6.30pm

Matthew Martin followed an organ scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford with postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music, London and subsequently continued his studies in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain.

After holding positions at New College, Oxford and Canterbury Cathedral, Matthew was Assistant Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral from 2004 to 2010, where he played for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols and for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. In 2008 he directed a highly praised recording for Hyperion Records of Victoria’s Missa Gaudeamus with the cathedral Lay Clerks. Since 2001, Matthew has been involved with the annual Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy - first as Organist and more recently as director of the Nave Choir.

He is in demand as a recitalist and has given concerts both in the UK, including at the Cheltenham, Spitalfields and South Bank festivals, and as far afield as Japan and Australia. In 2010, he was invited to play the recital at the annual presentation of diplomas for the Royal College of Organists in Southwark Cathedral. His first solo organ recording for Delphian Records is to be a disc of JS Bach organ music at New College, Oxford due for release in autumn 2011.

Matthew devotes much of his time to composition and is rapidly becoming a noted voice on the British choral scene. Recent commissions and performances have come from the BBC Singers, the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, the New London Children’s Choir and the Cardinall’s Musick. His music is published by Faber, Oxford University Press, Novello and United Music Publishers.
 

Gary Sieling was born in Bedfordshire and educated at Dunstable Grammar School. He read for his BMus degree at the University of London, Goldsmiths’ College. He studied organ with Peter Moorse, Nicholas Danby at the Royal College of Music, Dr Peter le Huray at St Catherine’s College Cambridge, and Jane Parker-Smith.

Gary was appointed Director of Music at Bromley Parish Church in July 2008. There he directs the fine parish church choir in the regular Sunday services, plus Cathedral visits and recordings, and is in charge of the splendid 1991 Walker organ.

Previously he was organist of Dunstable Priory and then Assistant Master of Music at Peterborough Cathedral. During this time he was Conductor of the Peterborough Philharmonic Society, Director of the St Peter’s Singers, and Founder and Associate Conductor of the City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra. He played for the Cathedral Choir on two tours of America in addition to regular TV and radio broadcasts and recordings.

As an organist, Gary follows a healthy solo career. Concert venues in this country include St Paul’s and Canterbury Cathedrals, King’s College Cambridge and Westminster Abbey. He has made ten international concert tours visiting Denmark, Germany, Italy and USA. He also works as an organ accompanist to Choirs from UK and USA on Cathedral visits, and to Choral Societies.

Conducting and Choir Training work includes being Director of the chamber choir ‘FineChants’ and Conductor to the ‘Occasional Choir’ - a London based Charity Choir of 60 voices.
 

Jonathan Hope is Organ Scholar of Southwark Cathedral, London.

Born in 1988 and brought up in Guildford, Surrey, Jonathan initially studied with Stephen Lacey at Farnham Parish Church, and John Belcher at Godalming Parish Church. From 2007-2011, he studied the Royal College of Music, London (RCM) with Margaret Phillips and Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, graduating with honours.

As Organ Scholar of Southwark Cathedral, Jonathan accompanies and conducts the cathedral’s four choirs, and plays the cathedral’s 4-manual 1897 T. C. Lewis organ, arguably one of the finest instruments in the world. His work at Southwark has recently involved playing in a live broadcast of Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3, playing for the Dean of Southwark’s funeral and for the enthronement of the Bishop of Southwark. He also features as accompanist on a CD of the cathedral boys’ choir, due to be released around Christmas 2011 on the Regent label. In March 2011 he accompanied the cathedral’s Merbecke Choir on a tour of Paris and Normandy, involving a performance on the organ of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Rouen. In October 2011, Jonathan will be accompanying the cathedral girls’ choir on a tour of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

As a solo recitalist, Jonathan has performed throughout the UK, France, Germany, the United States and Australia. Recent performances have included recitals in Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford, Westminster Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, and Saint-Sulpice, Paris.

As an ensemble player and accompanist, Jonathan has appeared with many groups including the RCM Baroque Orchestra, the RCM Symphony Orchestra, the Uxbridge Choral Society and the Colchester Chamber Choir. In 2008, he appeared in London’s Southbank Centre in ‘KLANG’, a festival to mark the 80^th anniversary of the birth of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, when he performed Stockhausen’s ‘Trans’ with the RCM Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Diego Masson.

As a teacher, Jonathan teaches the organ privately in and around London, and is an organ tutor at Sevenoaks School, Kent.

Jonathan lives in south-east London with his fiancée, the Italian-Australian soprano Allegra Giagu.
For more information, please visit Jonathan’s website at www.jonathanhope.webs.com .

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)

Sonata No. 7 in F minor, op. 127                                                                                 

             Preludio: Allegro non troppo
             Andante
             Finale: Cadenza – Fuga: Moderato 

 Jehan Alain (1911 – 1940)

Deux danses à Agni Yavishta                                                                                      

 J. S. Bach (1685 – 1750)

Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544                                                                  

 Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Consolation No. 4 in D flat                                                                                             

 Max Reger (1873 – 1916)

J S Bach
Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541                      

Orlando Gibbons
Fantasia in Gamutt flat                       
Fantasia in C fa ut

R Schumann
from Six Pieces in Canonic Form Op 56
                                                                             
                       i              in F minor
                       ii             in A flat
                       iii            in D flat

G  F Handel arr M Dupré
Organ concerto in F Op 4 no 5
                                                
Herbert Howells
Psalm prelude Set 2 no 2                       

Percy Whitlock
Canzona & Scherzetto from Sonata in C minor
                                                                         
Marcel Dupré
Prelude and Fugue in B Op 7 no 1