Lunchtime Organ Recital at the Cathedral

Georgina Sherriff
Royal College of Music
22 May 2013 1:00 pm

Suite du Second Ton (Suite on the second tone) ... Jean-Adam Guilain (c. 1680 – c. 1739)
Prélude
Tierce en taille
Basse de Trompette
Trio de Flutes

Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541 ... Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Adagio in E major ... Frank Bridge (1879 – 1941)

Deux Danses à Agni Yavishta ... Jehan Alain (1911 – 1940)

Präludium and Fugue on B-A-C-H ... Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)

Georgina hails from Cornwall and was educated at Truro High School for Girls where she was an active member of the school choir and orchestra; accompanying the choir on tours to Belgium, Paris, South Africa, Venice and New York.
She gained Grade 8 organ, piano and theory by the age of seventeen, and went on to achieve the Diploma of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (DipABRSM) on the piano. Georgina is now in her third year at the Royal College of Music where she studies the organ with David Graham and Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin.
In September 2012, she was appointed as the Organ Scholar at St. Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, where she enjoys playing for the Sunday morning and Wednesday evening services. Since being at the Royal College of Music, Georgina has played the Royal Albert Hall organ, visited Paris and North Germany for master classes, and has given recitals in various cathedrals and churches in London and throughout England. Future engagements include organ recitals at Truro Cathedral, St. Stephen’s Church Walbrook London, and Dulwich College.

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