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, also appearing with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Ex Cathedral, and the Birmingham Bach Choir.
Alongside his cathedral duties, he enjoys recitals, chamber music, and continuo playing; he is also accompanist to Ripon Choral Society and 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, while in 2020, he ventured into YouTube online recitals with his Six Sixes series from Ripon Cathedral.
Program:
A Spanish Toccata – Ron Perrin (1931-1997)
Memory, hither come – Jeffery Wilson (b. 1957)
Toccata in F (BuxWV 156) – Dietrich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707)
Von Gott will ich nicht lassen (BWV 658) – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fantaisie in A – César Franck (1822-1890)
Impromptu in B minor – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) arr. Arthur Eaglefield Hull (1876-1928)
Le Banquet Céleste – Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
A Moorside Suite – Gustav Holst (1874-1934) arr. Tim Harper (b. 1986)
Scherzo
Nocturne
March
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