Patron: Naji Hakim
Festival Director: Martin Stacey
  Details of First Festival held in October 2006
 
 

Tim Wakerell

Tim Wakerell - photoEducated at Walton High School, Stafford, Tim Wakerell entered the Royal College of Music in 2003 to study organ with Margaret Phillips. Tim is a Foundation Scholar at the RCM supported by a Ruth Dyson Award and he now studies with David Graham. In 2004 he gained the ARCO, winning the Limpus, Shinn and Durrant prizes. Tim was a finalist at the 2004 Royal College of Organists Young Performer of the Year competition and subsequently performed in the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival. As a result of his participation in the Oundle Advanced Academy for Young Organists, he was awarded recitals at Southwell Minster, Ludlow Parish Church and St. Edmundsbury Cathedral. Tim has also recently given concerts at St John’s College, Cambridge and the Grosvenor Chapel, London. Tim is active as an accompanist and he plays for the RCM Chamber Choir. He also studies keyboard continuo with Robert Woolley. In January, he played the organ for a performance of Kodaly’s Laudes Organi with the RCM Chamber Choir, directed by Paul Spicer. He also participated in the recent London Festival of Contemporary Church Music where he was recorded from St Pancras Parish Church playing for evensong on Radio 3. Tim was organ scholar at the Chapel of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea from 2005-6 where he played the organ for the choir’s recording of music by Fauré and Rutter. He is now assistant organist at St Pancras Parish Church.

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

Jan Mikael Vainio - Intrada

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Jan Mikael Vainio - Litanie

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Juha T Koskinen - Il Messo Celeste

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