Norman Harper

Norman Harper was organ scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read for a music degree and studied organ with Peter Le Huray and Gillian Weir. Since then he has given organ recitals and accompanied choirs at cathedral and concert hall venues throughout the UK, including Westminster Abbey, St Paul's, Southwark and Westminster Cathedrals, as well as in France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Estonia. Touring in the USA, he has given recitals at the National Cathedral and other prominent churches in Washington DC. Norman has broadcast solo organ recitals on BBC Radio 3, and his CD of French Baroque and English 20th century music, recorded at Bolton Town Hall, was released in summer 2000. His latest solo CD, which includes music by Bruhns, J.S. Bach, Mozart and Brahms, was recorded on the organ of the Servite Priory, Fulham and released in 2002. In recent years Norman has played for many broadcast services on BBC radio and television, and he appears with Beckenham Parish Church Choir on a CD of organ and choral music by the English composer Anthony Cæsar. He is organist and assistant chorus master for Wimbledon Choral Society, whom he accompanied on the World Cup CD in 1998, featuring the music of Gabriel Fauré, and in 2002 he was appointed director of music at St Mary's Parish Church, Wimbledon. He is presently continuing his organ studies with David Sanger.

Norman performed at St John the Evangelist, Islington on 14th October 2006:

Thomas Hyde - Lucis Creator

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Timothy Craig Harrison - Carillon de Matin

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