was Wednesday 7th September 2022, 7.00pm
POSTPONED due to circumstances beyond our control
Richard Gowers
Our next concert is on Wednesday 7 September at 7pm and features the wonderfully talented young
organist, Richard Gowers. Richard will be appearing at the 2022 BBC Proms (Prom 17 & 59) as Orchestral
Organist.
Richard grew up in Cambridge and was a chorister at Kings College – singing the famous first
verse of Once in royal David’s city in 2007. He spent a year studying organ and piano at the Mendelssohn
Conservatoire in Leipzig before returning to King’s as organ scholar in 2014-2017 and graduating with a
starred first in Music. With King’s College Choir he performed at major venues and festivals around the
world, including Aldeburgh Festival, BBC Proms 2016, Concertgebouw, MDR Musiksommer, Rheingau,
Vancouver and tours of the USA and China. In 2018 he released a critically-acclaimed debut CD of
Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur, which was a Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’.
Richard is based in London, where he combines performing with teaching positions at Cambridge
University, Tiffin and Westminster Schools and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. He is
the Director of Music at St Saviour’s Church, Pimlico, where he conducts several choirs, curates a concert
series and runs the music outreach programme Sing After School. During the Covid-19 pandemic he has
made numerous recordings for the 6000-strong Self-Isolation Choir. In May 2020 he started an online
harmony course aimed at levelling up disadvantaged music students from diverse backgrounds, which has
since been adopted annually by Cambridge University.
Tickets are available at the door. £15 and £10 for Friends of the APOA - Students will be admitted free.
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