Charles Matthews – Organ Recital

Charles studied at the Royal College of Music, London and was an organ scholar at Trinity College Cambridge.  He has won numerous awards in international piano and organ competitions and performed for productions by the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet.  He works extensively with young people and acts as accompanist and organ tutor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Charles is organist at St Catherine’s Church, Chipping Campden, Musical Director of the Chipping Campden Festival Chorus and Patron of Shipston Music Society.

The programme will include:

Reger — Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor

Pachelbel — Ciacona in F minor

Byrd — The Bells

Rheinberger — Sonata no. 8 in E minor:

i Fugue

ii Intermezzo.

iii Scherzoso

iv Passacaglia

 

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