Programme
Allegro from Symphony VI
Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Two voluntaries
Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623)
Sonata III in A major
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
I. Con moto maestoso II. Andante tranquillo
Tu es Petrus
Timothy Ravalde (1988–)
Timothy Ravalde is the Assistant Organist of Chichester Cathedral where he plays for the daily choral services and assists Charles Harrison with the training of the choir. He has accompanied the choir on numerous broadcasts and tours, and appears on various recordings as accompanist, conductor and organ soloist. He is also the Musical Director of Fernhurst Choral Society, whom he will be conducting in a performance of Brahms’s Requiem in the cathedral in May.
He was educated at the Nelson Thomlinson School, Wigton, and has held organ scholarships at Carlisle and Salisbury Cathedrals and at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he studied music. He is a recipient of the F.E. Smith medal, presented by the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and a winner of the Brian Runnett Prize for organ playing.
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