Programme
Fantasia in F minor, K. 608 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 91) arr. Walter Emery
Chorale Prelude on ‘Kom heiliger Geist – Gottfried August Homilius (1714 – 1785)
Suite Médiévale – Jean Langlais (1907 - 1991)
Prélude
Tiento
Improvisation
Méditation
Acclamations (Sur le texte des Acclamations Carolingiennes)
Graham Eccles first studied the organ at Worksop College in Nottinghamshire; during this time he gained his LTCL and ARCO diplomas.
He subsequently studied at the Royal Northern College of music in Manchester under Ronald Frost and was appointed Boddington Organ Scholar at St. Ann’s Church. As well as graduating from the college with an upper division diploma he gained the diploma in professional performance and the Alice Shawcross prize in Church music. He also achieved the ARCM and FRCO diplomas at this time.
For many years he was a regular organist for the BBC Daily Service on Radio 4 and he served as an examiner for the ABRSM for over a decade.
He has been Assistant Organist at Chester Cathedral and Organist and Master of the Choristers at St Asaph and Bangor Cathedrals.
From 2004, Graham became a freelance musician, teaching and performing locally. He is a visiting tutor in organ at Bangor University, and has a long association conducting of Colwyn Bay Choral Society as well as St Asaph Choral Society as conductor and now as accompanist. He is in regular demand as an organ accompanist by many other choirs and Choral Societies of the North West and has been Organist at Birkenhead School for a number of years and is accompanist of Chester Music Society Choir. He has played many times with the RLPO and Hallé orchestras.
