Music at  ST MARY'S   Perivale

 

Tuesday 19 October 3.00 pm

Francis Grier (piano)

Mozart: Piano sonata in E flat K282 (14')
Adagio / Minuet / Allegro

Schubert: Sonata in B flat D 960 (40')
Moderato / Andante / Scherzo / Allegro

Francis Grier used to be organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and gave the first ever Prom concert given over to a solo performer in 1985. He is now a composer and psychoanalyst, the Editor-In-Chief Elect of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis . In 2006 his  Passion , commissioned by the BBC and VocalEssence in Minneapolis, was described by the Independent as "a work of vital attack, shivering beauty and compelling power...", and by the Minneapolis Star Tribune as "a modern masterpiece." He was awarded a British Composer Award for his  Missa Brevis  (2011) for St Paul's Cathedral. As a chamber music pianist he has recorded with Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis, and has performed with Colin Carr, Louise Williams and Andrew Marriner – as well as with his daughters. In June 2018 the Choir of King's College Cambridge digitally released  Lit by Holy Fire ; in September 2020 a CD was released of his organ music performed by Tom Winpenny at St Albans Abbey. The Rodolfus Choir have just released a new CD of music by Francis and John Tavener, and Stephen Farr is planning a new organ music CD, as well as premiering a new large-scale organ work based on the theme of All Saints.

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