Tim Harper, organ

An online organ recital recorded in Howden Minster by Tim Harper (Assistant Director of Music, Ripon Cathedral)  

Programme: 

Prelude and Fugue in D BWV532, J. S. Bach 

'Jesu, meine Zuversicht' BWV728, J. S. Bach 

Trio Sonata No.3 in D minor BWV527, J. S. Bach 

Prelude on Kingsfold, Norman Harper

Dance for St David, Ron Perrin 

Prélude (Pièces de Fantasie), Op.51 No.1, Louis Vierne 

Ripon Misericords (extracts), Philip Wilby

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Biography: 

Tim Harper has been Assistant Director of Music at Ripon Cathedral since September 2014.  He trained as organ scholar successively at St Barnabas Church, Dulwich, Clare College, Cambridge, Canterbury Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral; as a pupil of David Sanger, he gained the major prizes at ARCO and FRCO and was subsequently awarded the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.   

In 2010 he was appointed Assistant Director of Music at Birmingham Cathedral.  During these years, he appeared with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Ex Cathedra and the Birmingham Bach Choir, while studying organ with Andrew Fletcher and singing with Matthew Venner.

Alongside his cathedral duties, he enjoys recital, accompanying and continuo work and is accompanist to the early music course NORVIS.  An interest in jazz keeps his improvisational instincts exercised, while also finding employment in settings as diverse as boat, restaurant, funeral, Spain, Harrogate, organ recitals, and jazz Eucharists at St Paul’s Cathedral.  In 2016 he developed an interest in transcription through his arrangement of A Colour Symphony by Arthur Bliss, and last year made a foray into silent film accompaniment with Lon Chaney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.  

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COVID-19 disclaimer:  

Our online recitals have been recorded by a minimal, socially distanced crew in a COVID-Secure building. The organ console has been thoroughly cleaned before each recording.