St Giles' at Six - Organ Recital: Iain Quinn

Iain Quinn, Organ

Programme

Kazan Cathedral (The Nose) * Dmitri Shostakovich

(1906-1975)

Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546 J. S. Bach

(1685-1750)

Confession (The Gadly) * Dmitri Shostakovich

Epigrams Zoltán Kodály

(1882-1967)

arr. Gábor Trajtler

I Lento

II

III

IV Moderato

V Allegretto

VI Andantino

VII Con moto

VIII

IX

Continuum (N-O-T-R-E-D-A-M-E) Iain Quinn

(B. 1973)

Introduction and Passacaglia, Op. post. Max Reger

(1873-1916)

Iain Quinn was born in Cardiff, Wales. He grew up as a chorister at Llandaff Cathedral, also studying the organ, piano, and trumpet. At fourteen, he was appointed Organist at St Michael’s Theological College, Llandaff. He later joined the faculty of the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music, London. In 1994 he moved to the USA for study at The Juilliard School, the University of Hartford (BM) and the

Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University (MM), returning to the UK in 2009 as a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Durham (PhD historical musicology). He has released sixteen CDs on the Chandos, Guild, Hyperion, Naxos, Paulus, Raven, and Regent labels. His most recent recordings include Haydn Organ Concertos with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen (Chandos), Organ Music of Zoltán Kodály (Naxos), and Poulenc, Hindemith, Pinkham - Works for Organ and Orchestra with the English Symphony Orchestra and Ken Woods (ESO). He has completed critical editions of the previously unpublished organ works and

early Christmas cantata of Samuel Barber (G. Schirmer), the complete organ works of Carl Czerny (2 vv, A-R Editions), the complete anthems of John Goss (A-R Editions), and two volumes of the Elgar Complete Edition. He is the editor English Organ Sonatas (12 vv) (Ut Orpheus Edizioni) and the author of four books: The Genesis and Development of an English Sonata (Routledge – Royal Musical Association Monograph Series); The Organist in Victorian Literature (Palgrave Macmillan); Music and Religion in the writings of Ian McEwan (Boydell and Brewer); Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism and Standardization of The Star-Spangled Banner, 1907-1958 (Routledge). Dr Quinn is Professor of Organ at Florida State University and the Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities in the Office of the Vice President for Research. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

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