Celebrity Recital by Ian Tracey at St Aidans

Friday 15th June 2018

St Aidan's Church, New Parks, Leicester are holding a Music Festival in the second half of June. The opening event is a celebrity organ recital with Professor Ian Tracey, the Liverpool City Organist and Organist Titulaire at Liverpool Cathedral. Click here to download the flyer.

The recital starts at 7:30 pm. There is no interval, and refreshments will be served afterwards. Tickets are £7.50 (including refreshments). They are available either on the door or in advance from the Festival website here.

The address of the church is Saint Aidan's Church, Saint Oswald Road, New Parks, Leicester, LE3 6RJ. Click here to see its location on Google Maps.

PROGRAMME

George Frederick Handel

Suite from 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' (arr. W.T.Best)

Johann Pachelbel

Partita 'Christus, der ist Mein Leben'

Johann Sebastian Bach

Fantasia in G (BWV 572)

Franz Josef Haydn

Three Pieces for a Mechanical Clock

Peter Warlock

Capriol Suite (arr. Ian Tracey)

Basse-Danse, Allegro moderato
Pavane, Allegretto, ma un poco lento
Tordion, Con moto
Pieds-en-l'air, Andante tranquillo
Mattachins (Sword Dance), Allegro con brio

Carlo Curley

Two Improvisations

Nicholas Choveaux

Three Pieces

March
Meditation
Introduction and Toccata

Ferdinand Hérold

Clog Dance 'La fille mal gardée' (arr. Ian Tracey)

Théodore Dubois

Fiat Lux (Douze Pièces Nouvelles)

PROFESSOR IAN TRACEY has had a life-long association with Liverpool Cathedral and its music and, with his two illustrious predecessors, continues the tradition of an almost apostolic succession. He studied organ with Lewis Rust and then with his immediate precursor Dr. Noel Rawsthorne. Studies at Trinity College, London, culminated in Fellowship, after which, scholarship grants enabled him to continue his studies in Paris, with both Andre Isoir and Jean Langlais.

In 1980 he became the youngest Cathedral Organist in the country, and in 2007 after 27 years service, the Dean & Chapter created the post of ‘Organist Titulaire’, allowing him the freedom to devote more time to playing, lecturing, recording and writing. Since his appointment in 1980, he has played most of the major venues in this country, and an increasing number in Europe; very much in demand in the U.S.A., he has made 23 extensive tours, playing in all the major cities and in 1999 & 2003 undertook major tours of Southern Australia, recitaling, examining and teaching. Recent seasons have included concerts in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Bermuda, Paris, Holland, Germany, Jersey & Spain; he returns to Holland and Germany in 2018.

On the wider musical canvas, he is a frequent broadcaster with the B.B.C., and his recordings on the Cathedral Organ have met with wide acclaim from the critics, recording for E.M.I., CHANDOS and PRIORY. He regularly examines and adjudicates and, over the past 28 years, has conducted over 250 concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus. He holds Fellowships from 20 prestigious musical institutions both here and abroad, including the Royal College of Organists, as one of only 28 Honorary Fellows worldwide. In 2006, the University of Liverpool conferred upon him Doctor of Music, in recognition of his long and distinguished service to music in Liverpool and of his national and international reputation. In 2008, the Royal School of Church Music and in 2009, the Guild of Church Musicians, awarded him Fellowships for distinguished services to church music and his international reputation as a church musician. He was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Merseyside in 2015.

His other posts include: Organist to the City of Liverpool; at St. George's Hall; Chorus Master to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society; Guest Director of Music for the BBC Daily Service; Professor, Fellow and Organist at Liverpool, John Moores University; Tonal Director for Makin Organs & Copeman Hart Ltd. and past president of the Incorporated Association of Organists of Great Britain. His website is to be found at www.iantracey.com and many of his concerts are also listed on www.organrecitals.com.