John Scott Whiteley at Bloomsbury

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BLOOMSBURY CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH

235 SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON WC2H 8EP

 

 

SATURDAY 25TH MAY AT 4:00PM

 

JOHN SCOTT WHITELEY

(ORGANIST EMERITUS - YORK MINSTER)

 

MAX REGER (1873-1916)

Introduction and Passacaglia in D Minor (op. posth.)

 

BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Voluntary on Tallis's Lamentation (c1940)

 

J.S. BACH (1685-1750)

Wir Christenleut

BWV deest

(We Christian people have joy now)

 

Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottes Sohn

BWV Anh 55

(Trinity 18 - Christ the only Son of God)

 

Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, BWV 534

 

JOSEPH JONGEN (1873-1953)

Divertimento

(

2nd movt of Symphonie Concertante Op 81,

Arranged: John Scott Whiteley)

 

Chant de May. Op 53 No 2

 

PIERRE COCHEREAU (1924-1984)

Symphonie en Improvisation

(Notre-Dame, December 1963)

Transcribed: John Scott Whiteley

1. Grave; vivo e agitato

2. Scherzo

3. Lento

4. Final

 

Admission Free - Collection - Buffet

 

www.bloomsbury.org.uk

 

John Scott Whiteley is Organist Emeritus of York Minster, having worked at that great cathedral from 1975 until 2010 when he retired from the Minster in order to pursue his freelance career. During the past ten years he has become well-known for his performances on BBC2 and BBC4 television of the complete organ music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

21st-Century Bach

was a joint commission by BBC2 and BBC4 and began in 2001. The series continues and is planned to run for several more years, after which time some eighty programmes will have covered Bach's entire output for organ. The series was described by the British daily national newspaper,

The Daily Telegraph,

as "a triumph both nationally and musically.

Having studied at the Royal College of Music with Ralph Downes and W.S. Lloyd Webber, and with Flor Peeters in Malines and Fernando Germani in Siena, John Scott Whiteley won first prize in the1976 National Organ Competition of Great Britain. He then performed at the Royal Festival Hall, for the UK Annual Conference of the Incorporated Association of Organists, and at festivals throughout Europe. The most recent of these have included the 2005 International Organ Festival in St. Albans, the 2006 Musicometa Festival in Rome, and the 2008 Bach Festivals in Skiernewice, Poland, and Camaiore, Italy. From 1985 John toured the USA annually and for twenty years he was represented by the well-known agency, Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists. His exclusive representative is now Paul Vaughan Artists (PVA Management).

 

 

John now has twenty-four solo CD recordings to his credit, and a further twenty-two as accompanist. These have been recorded by EMI, Guild, Regent, Priory, Amphion, Boreas and York Ambisonics. His CD, Great Romantic Organ Music, appeared for eight years in the

Penguin Good CD Guide

as one of the best recorded organ recitals, and several other CDs have won awards, notably a Critic's Choice Award from

The Gramophone

. This award-winning recording, The Complete Organ Music of Joseph Jongen, formed the basis of some recent programmes made for the American Public Radio Network's

Pipedreams

series.

Pipedreams

transmitted a complete programme of his playing in 1999, and further material has been recorded for transmission in 2011/12.

DVDs of the first two series of

21st-Century Bach

were released in April 2006, and Signum has issued Series 3. A DVD of the organ of York Minster was released in 2008 by Priory.

John Scott Whiteley has researched and published books about the music of both Bach and the Belgian composer, Joseph Jongen. He has contributed articles on Bach to

The Organ Yearbook,

and on Jongen to

The New Grove: Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

In 2003 he was principal lecturer and recitalist at the Colloque Joseph Jongen organised by the Conservatoire of Brussels. He has also transcribed, published and re-recorded the famous

Symphonie improvisée

recorded by Pierre Cochereau at Notre-Dame in 1963.

Composition continues to occupy him more frequently, and he has now completed some eighteen works for organ and seventeen church compositions. The former include his recent

Passacaglia

and five pieces inspired by the

Five Sisters Windows

in York Minster. His church music includes

Five Cathedral Motets

and the large-scale anthem;

At the round earth's imagined corners.

A number of his compositions have been broadcast on BBC Radio Three and in 2010 he recorded a CD of his own organ works played on the organ of York Minster.

Between 2000 and 2008, John Scott Whiteley was Director of the Girl Choristers of York Minster, with whom he recorded a CD of the music of Lassus in 2008. He has taught the organ at the Universities of Hull and Huddersfield, and, as a visiting tutor, at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has often been an adjudicator for organ competitions, and he is an examiner for the ABRSM and for the Royal College of Organists, having been a member of the council of the RCO for over ten years.

 

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J