Organ Recital: Anthony Gray (Southwell Minster)

Anthony Gray: Organ ScholarAnthony is an organist and choir director, currently based in Southwell where he is the Organ Scholar at Southwell Minster. Here, he regularly directs and accompanies the Cathedral’s three choirs as well as assisting in the training of the young choristers in the music foundation. He also directs the recently re-formed West Trent Choir.

In 2018, he graduated from Robinson College Cambridge where held the Basil Shone Organ Scholarship. He was also the organist for St. John’s Voices and the accompanist for the Cambridgeshire Choral Society. He undertook a number of major tours with Robinson College Choir, St. John’s Voices and The Robinson Consort, a group of 16 singers focussing on contemporary repertoire which he co-founded and directed, to destinations including East Asia, Switzerland, Portugal and the Opera Festival in St-Remy-En-Provence, as well as a number of domestic locations and Cathedrals.

As well as his work with choirs, Anthony has also taken on Musical Director roles for a variety of theatre productions in Cambridge including Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Lloyd-Webber’s Joseph and his own co-authored show A Very Brexit Musical both in Cambridge and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the summer of 2018. Prior to Cambridge, held the organ scholarship at Bradford Cathedral for two and a half years and achieved the ABRSMDip in organ performance in 2014. He has played organ and harpsichord continuo for a number of major works including Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and, in 2017, Handel’s Messiah across a number of major concert halls and venues in Cambridge, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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Organ Recitals 2019 Southwell Minster

 


The Minster hosts a number of organ recitals during the year, featuring highly-skilled performers from around the UK and beyond. Explore the range of repertoire you could experience in this year’s series by following the links below.

 


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  • Venue: Southwell Minster